Homer: Iliad Book I - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108412963 ISBN 13 : 9781108412964

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Book I of the Iliad marks the beginning of the first surviving work of Greek literature. This edition with commentary enables readers at all levels to interpret the poetry with heightened pleasure and understanding. It provides help with the morphology, grammar, and syntax of Homeric Greek, situates the poem in its historical and poetic contexts, and elucidates its traditional language, meter, rhetoric, and style, as well as its distinctive transformation of traditional mythology and narrative motifs in accordance with its own interests, values, and poetic purposes. It also addresses the programmatic contrast in Book I between gods and humans; the characterization of both major and minor figures; and the thematic significance in Book I and the poem generally of the representation of social, cultural, religious, and ethical institutions and values. Fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, this edition also contains much of value for the scholar.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Seth Schein is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of six books, three of which are on Homer: The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad (1984), Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays (1996) [edited], and Homeric Epic and its Reception: Interpretive Essays (2016). He has also edited Sophocles' Philoctetes for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108412963
• ISBN 13: 9781108412964
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Éditeur: Schein Seth L.
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