Iliad: A Commentary - A Commentary

Zusammenfassung This is the first volume of a projected six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad! under the General Editorship of professor G. S. Kirk. Professor Kirk himself is the editor of the present volume! which covers the first four Books of Iliad. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of maps; Preface; Abbreviations; Editorial introduction: the methods and aims of the commentary; Introduction; 1. The making of the Iliad: preliminary considerations; 2. The structural elements of Homeric verse; 3. Aristarchus and the scholia; 4. The first four Books of the Iliad in context; Commentary; Book 1; Book 2; Special index to commentary on the Achaean and Trojan catalogues; Book 3; Book 4; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Homer, G. S. Kirk, G. S. (University of Cambridge) Kirk
• Assisted by: G. S. Kirk (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.1985
• EAN: 9780521281713
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28171-3
• No. of pages: 436
• Series: Iliad
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies