Homer: Iliad Book 22

This magnificent new translation sets the highest standards for beauty, accuracy, and aliveness. Thanks to his scholarship and poetic power, which recreates the energy, simplicity, speed, grace, and continual thrust and pull of the original, "The Iliad"'s ancient story bursts vividly into new life and will reach an even larger audience of readers.

List of contents

Introduction; Text; Commentary.

About the author

Irene J. F. de Jong holds the chair of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. She has published extensively on Homer, Herodotus and Euripides and is editing a multi-volume history of ancient Greek narrative. Some of her key publications are: Narrators and Focalizers: The Presentation of the Story in the Iliad (1987, reprinted 2004), A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and, with A. Rijksbaron, Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax, and Semantics (2006).

Summary

Edition suitable for students and scholars of this climactic book in the epic poem featuring the fatal encounter between Hector and Achilles. The introduction summarises central debates in Homeric scholarship while the commentary offers up-to-date linguistic guidance, and elucidates narrative techniques, typical elements and central themes.

Product details

• Authors: Homer
• Assisted by: Irene J. F. de Jong (Editor), Irene J. F. de Jong (Editor), Irene J. F. De (Universiteit Van Amsterdam) Jong (Editor), Jong Irene J. F. de (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2012
• EAN: 9780521709774
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70977-4
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Poetry by individual poets, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Ancient, classical and medieval texts