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Reading Homer’s "Iliad" is a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s major themes, meant to inform students new to the work. Endnotes elaborate on myths Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume includes a general bibliography, in addition to bibliographies accompanying each book’s commentary.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Poem, the Poet, and the Myth
1 Achilles' Wrath Exposed: Il. 1 (Days One to Twenty-One)
Book 1
2 The First Battle: Il. 2-7 (Days Twenty-Two to Twenty-Four)
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
Book 6
Book 7
3 The Second Battle: Il. 8-10 (Day Twenty-Five)
Book 8
Book 9
Book 10
4 The Third Battle: Il. 11-18 (Day Twenty-Six)
Book 11
Book 12
Book 13
Book 14
Book 15
Book 16
Book 17
Book 18
5 The Fourth Battle: Il. 19-23 (Day Twenty-Seven)
Book 19
Book 20
Book 21
Book 22
Book 23
6 Achilles' Wrath Concluded: Il. 24 (Days Twenty-Eight to Fifty-Three)
Book 24
Appendix A: Days Covered by the Iliad Narrative
Appendix B: Character Names in the Iliad
Appendix C: Place-Names in the Iliad
Appendix D: Greek Terms Cited
Acknowledgments
Notes
General Bibliography
Index
About the author
KOSTAS MYRSIADES, professor emeritus of Greek and comparative literature at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, is a distinguished translator and Hellenist and the recipient of the Gold Medallion (1995) from Greece's Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature. He is the author and/or translator of 22 books, articles, and invited lectures on Greek literature and culture, including Reading Homer's "Odyssey" (Bucknell University Press). For twenty-two years (1990-2012) he edited College Literature, a quarterly of literary criticism and theory.
Summary
Provides a book-by-book commentary on the The Iliad’s 24 parts. Endnotes clarify and elaborate on myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the Iliad.
