Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush

A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-674-03559-1
Verlag: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 614 g

Reihe: Hellenic Studies Series

This edition, commentary, and accompanying essays focus on the tenth book of the Iliad, which has been doubted, ignored, and even scorned. Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott use approaches based on oral traditional poetics to illuminate many of the interpretive questions that strictly literary approaches find unsolvable. The introductory essays explain their textual and interpretive approaches and explicate the ambush theme within the whole Greek epic tradition. The critical texts (presented as a sequence of witnesses, including the tenth-century Venetus A manuscript and select papyri) highlight the individual witnesses and the variations they offer. The commentary demonstrates how the unconventional Iliad 10 shares in the oral traditional nature of the whole epic, even though its poetics are specific to its nocturnal ambush plot.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Due, Casey

Dué, Casey

Ebbott, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Dué, Casey
Casey Dué is Professor and Director of Classical Studies at the University of Houston.

Ebbott, Mary
Mary Ebbott is Associate Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross.