A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer, Iliad VIII

A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer, Iliad VIII
Author: Adrian Kelly
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2007-02-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019156866X

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.

The Iliad

The Iliad
Author: Homer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2011-09-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199235481

New translation of Homer's epic poem.

Sociable Man

Sociable Man
Author: S. D. Lambert
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2011-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1910589217

Sociable Man, which celebrates the work of Nick Fisher, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University, contains essays by leading classicists, ancient historians and archaeologists on the theme of ancient Greek social behaviour. Fifteen original papers reflect the diversity and the unities in the honorand's interests: politics and law (Hans van Wees on Solon's law of hybris, John K. Davies on the biography of a fourth-century Athenian politician); social values, including honour, dishonour and hybris (Stephen Lambert on honorific inscriptions, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on domestic violence, Louis Rawlings on a dog named Hybris, James Whitley on victory dedications, Douglas Cairns on ransom and revenge in Homer); social relations in the Athenian navy (Sam Potts); gender and power (Janett Morgan on gendering of domestic space, Sian Lewis on women and tyranny, Ruth Westgate on animal imagery in mosaics); citizen identity, Athenian (Robin Osborne on the influence of Attic local environments on citizen formation) and Arcadian (James Roy on the Arcadian reputation for backwardness); and sexuality (David Konstan on Alciphron and the invention of pornography, Emma Stafford on masturbation). The papers will be essential reading for researchers and students of ancient Greek literature, history and archaeology. The book also includes tributes by Paul Cartledge and P. J. Shaw, respectively, on Fisher's place in research and teaching of ancient Greek social history.

The Homeric Doloneia

The Homeric Doloneia
Author: Christos C. Tsagalis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2024-09-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192698702

The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity having been doubted since antiquity. Modern scholars are divided between those who regard it as a major interpolation by a later poet who was trained in the technique of epic composition and those who see it as the earliest manifestation of the very ancient theme of lochos. However, the first claim assumes the stylistic homogeneity of book 10, while the second sweeps out dictional and thematic difficulties by attributing them to the theme of ambush that is weakly represented in the extant corpus of archaic Greek epic. By applying sophisticated interpretive tools such as intratextual association, intertextual allusion, and oral neoanalysis, this book maintains that Iliad 10 is thematically consonant with the rest of the Iliad and that it has evolved from an earlier Iliadic version after the addition of the Rhesus episode, which did not circulate as an independent composition but formed part of lost oral epic poetry with cyclic features that focused on the events after the death of Achilles.

Homer’s Iliad

Homer’s Iliad
Author: Martha Krieter-Spiro
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2018-03-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 311056940X

The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through the English translation of this ground-breaking reference work, edited by S. Douglas Olson, its valuable findings are now made accessible to students and scholars worldwide.

Homer’s Iliad

Homer’s Iliad
Author: Marina Coray
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110570742

The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through the English translation of this ground-breaking reference work, edited by S. Douglas Olson, its valuable findings are now made accessible to students and scholars worldwide.

Early Greek Epic: Language, Interpretation, Performance

Early Greek Epic: Language, Interpretation, Performance
Author: Christos Tsagalis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2022-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110981386

In the last fifty years major developments have taken place, both in the field of Homeric studies and in the rest of early Greek epic. These developments have not only created a more solid basis for studying the Homeric epics, but they have also broadened our horizons with respect to the place of Homeric poetry within a larger cultural milieu. The impressive advances in Hesiodic studies, the more systematic approach to the Epic Cycle, the more nuanced use and re-evaluation of dominant twentieth-century theories like Neoanalysis and Oral Theory, the study of other fragmentary Greek epic, the cognitive turn, narratology, the performance of epic poetry in the ancient and modern world, the fruitful utilization of Indo-European material, and the widely accepted recognition of the close relation between Homer and the mythology and literature of the ancient Near East have virtually shaped anew the way we read and understand Homer, Hesiod, and early Greek epic. The studies collected in this volume are informed by most of the aforementioned sub-fields and span four research areas: (i) Homer; (ii) Hesiod; (iii) the Epic Cycle; (d) the performance of epic.

Homer: Iliad Book XVIII

Homer: Iliad Book XVIII
Author: Homer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2019-01-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108594492

Book 18 of the Iliad is an outstanding example of the range and power of Homeric epic. It describes the reaction of the hero Achilles to the death of his closest friend, and his decision to re-enter the conflict even though it means he will lose his own life. The book also includes the forging of the marvellous shield for the hero by the smith-god Hephaestus: the images on the shield are described by the poet in detail, and this description forms the archetypal ecphrasis, influential on many later writers. In an extensive introduction, R. B. Rutherford discusses the themes, style and legacy of the book. The commentary provides line-by-line guidance for readers at all levels, addressing linguistic detail and larger questions of interpretation. A substantial appendix considers the relation between Iliad 18 and the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, which has been prominent in much recent discussion.

Homer: Iliad Book III

Homer: Iliad Book III
Author: Homer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107063019

Wide-ranging edition of this most diverse book of the Iliad. Suitable especially for students and their instructors.