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Zusatztext For those of us introduced to the Iliad by the first edition of this book, the second is welcome, and not least for making its material readily available once more. Despite the plethora of recent (and imminent) general introductions and companions to Homer, this book should enjoy something of the popularity obtained by its predecessor, not least because it is written in a lucid and jargon-free style that should serve as a model for anyone producing a work of this sort. Informationen zum Autor Martin Mueller is Professor of English and Classics at Northwestern University. He is the author of "Children of Oedipus and Other Essays on the Imitation of greek Tragedy, 1500-1800". Together with Ahuvia Kahane, he edited The Chicago Homer, a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek (http://www.library.northwestern.edu/homer). Klappentext No Western text boasts a life as long as the Iliad, and few can match its energy and glory. This introduction to Homer 's poem sees it as rooted in a particular culture with its own narrative and thematic conventions, but opposes the trends of much recent scholarship which place it in a straitjacket of oral poetry and heroic design. Instead, Martin Mueller follows Plato and Aristotle in seeing the plot of the Iliad as a distinctly Homeric invention which shaped Attic tragedy and the concept of dramatic action in Western literature. The text has been completely overhauled for this new edition, taking account of scholarship over the two decades since it was first published and making the text more accessible to those studying the Iliad in translation. Vorwort Offers an introduction to Homer's poem which sees it as rooted in a particular culture with its own narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry. Zusammenfassung No Western text boasts a life as long as the "Iliad", and few can match its energy and glory. This introduction to Homer's poem sees it as rooted in a particular culture with narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry. Professor Mueller follows Plato and Aristotle in seeing the plot of the "Iliad" as a distinctly Homeric 'invention' which shaped Attic tragedy and the concept of dramatic action in Western literature. In this second edition the text has been revised in many places, and a new chapter on Homeric repetitions has been added. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface1. Introduction2. The Plot of the Iliad 3. Fighting in the Iliad 4. The Similes5. The Gods 6. Homeric Repetitions 7. The Composition of the Iliad8. The Life of the Iliad Bibliography Index...
