Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 951 g
Reihe: Oxford Classical Monographs
Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 951 g
Reihe: Oxford Classical Monographs
ISBN: 978-0-19-920355-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford
This book aims to provide the reader of Homer with the traditional knowledge and fluency in Homeric poetry which an original ancient audience would have brought to a performance of this type of narrative. To that end, Adrian Kelly presents the text of Iliad VIII next to an apparatus referring to the traditional units being employed, and gives a brief description of their semantic impact. He describes the referential curve of the narrative in a continuous
commentary, tabulates all the traditional units in a separate lexicon of Homeric structure, and examines critical decisions concerning the text in a discussion which employs the referential method as a critical criterion. Two small appendices deal with speech introduction formulae, and with the traditional
function of Here and Athene in early Greek epic poetry.
