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Homer's Iliad

A Commentary on the translation of Richmond Lattimore

Norman Postlethwaite

Homer's Iliad
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Norman Postlethwaite

324 pages | 8-1/2 x 5-2/5 | © 2000
Cloth $90.00 ISBN: 9780859896832 Published January 2000 For sale in North and South America only
Paper $23.95 ISBN: 9780859896849 Published January 2000 For sale in North and South America only
This book introduces the general reader, as well as the student of Classics, to one of the masterpieces of European literature, the Iliad of Homer, in the English translation of Richmond Lattimore.  It offers the background that readers need to understand the poem's detail of story and characters, and it provides a step-by-step guide to the story's unravelling and to the literary features which have ensured its enduring popularity since its composition in 750 BC. 
 
The edition is designed specifically for the reader who has neither any previous knowledge of Greek nor of Homer and approaches the poem as a literary text, seeking to identify the poet's techniques and to assess their effects.  It can be used both as a continous reading alongside Lattimore's (or any other) translation and as a reference work for specific points of textual understanding or interpretation.  There is a comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography and a guide to further reading.
Contents

Preface
Maps of Greece

Introduction
     1. Homer
     2. The Homeric Epics
     3. The Historical Background
     4. The Trojan War
     5. Composition
     6. The Homeric Question
     7. Some Features of Style
     8. The Hero
     9. The Gods
Commentary
     Iliad One
     Iliad Two
     Iliad Three
     Iliad Four
     Iliad Five
     Iliad Six
     Iliad Seven
     Iliad Eight
     Iliad Nine
     Iliad Ten
     Iliad Eleven
     Iliad Twelve
     Iliad Thirteen
     Iliad Fourteen
     Iliad Fifteen
     Iliad Sixteen
     Iliad Seventeen
     Iliad Eighteen
     Iliad Nineteeen
     Iliad Twenty
     Iliad Twenty-One
     Iliad Twenty-Two
     Iliad Twenty-Three
     Iliad Twenty-Four

Bibliography
Index

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