Buch, Englisch, 516 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 852 g
Buch, Englisch, 516 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 852 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-872183-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford
This anthology makes accessible to the reader sixteen of the most important studies of Homer and the Iliad to appear in the last forty years. The essays, by leading Homeric scholars from Great Britain, the United States, and Europe, deal not only with the aesthetics and artistry of the Iliad as a poetic artefact, but with its historical context, its cultural background, and its ethical and political framework. Other major topics include the relation between the Iliad and other early epics (the Odyssey, the Epic Cycle), the interface between epic and other genres, such as tragedy, and the complex interaction that exists between the Iliad and the wider traditions of oral poetry and mythical narrative in which it belongs.
Two of the contributions have been translated especially for this volume; several have been thoroughly revised and updated, and others are provided with Addenda taking account of recent work in the field. In a detailed and wide-ranging introduction Douglas Cairns sets the contributions in the context of contemporary scholarship and explores significant connections between them. All Greek is translated and a Glossary of transliterated Greek terms is provided.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
Weitere Infos & Material
- 1: Ian Morris: The Use and Abuse of Homer
- 2: Walter Burkert: The Making of Homer
- 3: R. B. Rutherford: From the Iliad to the Odyssey
- 4: Richard Gaskin: Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions?
- 5: Albin Lesky: Divine and Human Causation in Homeric Epic
- 6: Douglas L. Cairns: Affronts and Quarrels in the Iliad
- 7: Malcolm Schofield: Euboulia in the Iliad
- 8: R. B. Rutherford: Tragic Form and Feeling in the Iliad
- 9: C. W. Macleod: Homer on Poetry and the Poetry of Homer
- 10: Jean-Pierre Vernant: A 'Beautiful Death' and the Disfigured Corpse
- 11: Oliver Taplin: The Shield of Achilles within the Iliad
- 12: Jasper Griffin: The Epic Cycle and the Uniqueness of Homer
- 13: Wolfgang Kullmann: Past and Future in the Iliad
- 14: Laura M. Slatkin: The Wrath of Thetis
- 15: M. M. Willcock: Mythological Paradigms in the Iliad
- 16: James Redfield: The Proem of the Iliad: Homer's Art
- 17: Irene J. F. de Jong: Iliad I. 366-92: A Mirror Story
