MAKING OF ILIAD C

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-959007-0
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 840 g

A compendium of a world-renowned scholar's thoughts on the composition of the Iliad
Clear and lively style, with numerous incidental insights
Recovery of important contributions of older scholarship is combined with a provocative refutation of fashionable approaches

The Making of the Iliad is intended for readers who have some knowledge of Greek and of Homer. After introductory chapters on the poet of the Iliad's date and homeland, the poetic traditions known to him, the way in which his work developed, and ist early reception, Martin West provides a running commentary on the epic, distinguishing the different stages of the poet's workings, illuminating his aims and methods, and identifying techniques and motifs derived from ancestral Indo-European tradition or imported from the Near East.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of classics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

West

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Disquisition: The Making of the Iliad
1: Aims and Assumptions
2: The Poet: When and Where?
3: Songs Known and Heard
4: Troy and Achilles
5: The Growth of the Poem
6: Early Reception and Transmission
II. Analytical Commentary: The Made Iliad

Über Autor(innen)

M. L. West, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford