This edition of Iliad I provides an admirable introduction to a first reading of Homer. The book deals with the origin of Achilles’ wrath which gives rise to the poem’s main plot, which introduces principal characters such as Odysseus and Nestor and adumbrates the role the gods are to play in the story. This edition provides text with notes on facing pages, an introduction to Homer’s poetry, bibliography, vocabulary, glossary of proper names and short appendices on Homeric dialect forms, prepositional usages, formulaic composition and the dactylic hexameter – everything needed by the student tackling Homeric epic for the first time.
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This edition provides the commentary and student aids lacking in larger
volumes on Homer's work, containing a full Introduction designed to
highlight the most important features of the text. The Greek text is
printed with a facing literal English translation intended to help beginners to construe the Greek. There is also a
full vocabulary list.

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List of Illustrations
Foreword
Introduction
Select Bibliography
Text with Facinq Notes
Appendices
1 Some Basic Homeric Forms
2 Prepositional Usaqes
3 Formulae
4 Metre and Scansion
Vocabulary
Proper Names

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The Greek text of<i> Iliad I</i> is printed with a facing English translation, an introduction to Homer’s poetry, bibliography, vocabulary, glossary of proper names and short appendices
Contains a full Introduction highlighting the most important features of the text, dating, oriental influences, style, gods, men, the transmission of the text, the scholia, the epic dialect, and metre

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780862920234
Publisert
1991-06-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Bristol Classical Press
Vekt
170 gr
Høyde
226 mm
Bredde
150 mm
Dybde
7 mm
Aldersnivå
G, UU, UP, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
104

Volume editor

Biografisk notat

J.A. Harrison co-edited Homer: Iliad Books I and VI with R.H. Jordan (both published by Bloomsbury).

R.H. Jordan was Head of Classics and Senior Vice Principal of the Methodist College Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK; and editor of Virgil: Aeneid, Books II and X (also published by Bloomsbury).