Homer: Iliad Book I

An up-to-date commentary aimed at undergraduates and graduate students, focusing on language, meter, style, and literary interpretation.

Seth L. Schein (Edited by)

9781108420082, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 June 2022

256 pages
22.2 x 14.3 x 1.8 cm, 0.41 kg

'… Schein has produced a reliable companion for reading the first Book of the Iliad, which in the future will not be missing from any desk on which Homer is studied.' Hauke Schneider, Exemplaria Classica

Book I of the Iliad marks the beginning of the first surviving work of Greek literature. This edition with commentary enables readers at all levels to interpret the poetry with heightened pleasure and understanding. It provides help with the morphology, grammar, and syntax of Homeric Greek, situates the poem in its historical and poetic contexts, and elucidates its traditional language, meter, rhetoric, and style, as well as its distinctive transformation of traditional mythology and narrative motifs in accordance with its own interests, values, and poetic purposes. It also addresses the programmatic contrast in Book I between gods and humans; the characterization of both major and minor figures; and the thematic significance in Book I and the poem generally of the representation of social, cultural, religious, and ethical institutions and values. Fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, this edition also contains much of value for the scholar.

Introduction
A note on the text and apparatus criticus
ILIAD 1 ((ΙΛΙΑΔΟΣ Α)
Commentary
Bibliography
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB], Poetry by individual poets [DCF]