Oxford Critical Guide To Homers Iliad
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Author | : Jonathan L. Ready |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2024-07-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192642626 |
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devoting one chapter to each one. Contributors summarize the plot of a book and then explore its themes and poetics, providing both close readings of individual passages and synthetic reviews of current scholarship. This format allows readers to study the poem in the same manner in which they read it: book by book. Differing from other introductions to the Iliad that comprise chapters on specific topics and themes, the volume offers accessible and actionable discussions of concepts pertinent to each book of the poem. Differing from other introductory volumes that are written by a single author, this volume allows for a polyphony of critical voices and showcases the diversity of approaches to the Iliad. Finally, differing from commentaries keyed to the Greek text, this volume is completely accessible to those who do not read Homeric Greek. These features make the volume an essential resource for those studying the Iliad in translation and in the original Greek, for those in classical studies and in other disciplines, and for teachers and students, both those at the undergraduate level and those at the graduate level.
Author | : Jonathan L. Ready |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-06-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198869870 |
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad makes learning about this foundational epic easier than ever, investigating each of its 24 books in order, devoting one chapter to each book. Chapters summarize a books' plot, then investigate its themes and poetics, providing close readings of individual passages and reviews of current scholarship.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2011-09-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199235481 |
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New translation of Homer's epic poem.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Achilles (Greek mythology) |
ISBN | : 9780192834058 |
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Centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determine the fate of Troy. This book presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 934 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780199394074 |
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Renowned Homer scholar Barry B. Powell has already given the world powerful new translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Now his Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: The Essential Books brings together his translations of the most important books and passages from these two great poems in one handy volume. Accessible, poetic, and accurate, Barry Powell's translations are an excellent fit for today's students. With swift, transparent language that rings both ancient and modern, Powell exposes students to all of the rage, pleasure, pathos, cunning, and humor that are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Both the translations and the introductions are informed by the best recent scholarship. FEATURES * Uses well-modulated verse and accurate English that is contemporary but never without dignity * Powell's introduction sets the poems in their philological, mythological, and historical contexts * Features unique on-page notes, facilitating students' engagement with the poems * Embedded illustrations accompanied by extensive captions provide Greek and Roman visual sources for key passages * Maps provide geographic context for the poems' many place names * Audio recordings (read by Powell) of important passages are available on the book's Companion Website and indicated in the text margin by an icon
Author | : Douglas L. Cairns |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198721826 |
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This anthology of 16 seminal studies of Homer's Iliad offers essential insights into the poem's artistry and cultural background. An authoritative introduction sets the papers in context and explores significant connections between them.
Author | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2015-09-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1410335070 |
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Author | : Maureen Alden |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2001-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191590037 |
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Students reading the Iliad for the first time are often bewildered by the sheer volume of information on apparently unrelated subjects contained in it. The central narrative seems to unfold very slowly, and to be complicated by long speeches containing stories which might be interesting in themselves, but which seem to have no relevance to anything else. In this book Dr Alden offers advice on how to read the Iliad through the relationship of major paradigms to the events of the main narrative. The first section offers the first full-length study in English of the paradigmatic functions of secondary narratives and minor-key episodes in the Iliad. None of these are irrelevant or merely ornamental: rather each is carefully selected and altered if necessary, to reflect on significant episodes of the main narrative and act as guides to its interpretation. The second section offers a general reading of the Iliad arising out of Phoenix's advice to Achilles in Book 9. The allegory of the Prayers illustrates the dire consequences of rejecting prayers, and the paradigm of Meleager presents us with an instance of an angry hero to whom prayers and entreaties are addressed, whilst the primary narrative confines this motif of prayers and entreaties in ascending scale of affection to Achilles and Hector and contrasts their responses. Both heroes suffer terribly for their rejection of entreaties.
Author | : Lillian Eileen Doherty |
Publisher | : Oxford Readings in Classical S |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199233322 |
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This volume assembles sixteen authoritative articles on Homer's Odyssey that have appeared over the last thirty years. A wide variety of interpretative strategies are represented, including, in addition to traditional close readings, the approaches of comparative anthropology, narratology, feminism, and audience-oriented criticism. Papers have been selected for their clarity and accessibility, and each is informed by close attention to philological and textual detail. A full glossary and list of abbreviations have been included, and a specially written introduction puts the selections in a wider context by giving an overview of major strands in the interpretation of Homer in the second half of the twentieth century.