The Iliad.

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 propert...

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Main Author: Mueller, Martin, 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
Series:BC Paperbacks Series.
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520 |a 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 repetiti. 
505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; 1. Introduction; History and the Iliad; The poet(s) of Homer; Homo homericus and the question of oral poetry; The Iliad and Odyssey; The Homeric hexameter; Interpreting Homeric repetitions; 2. The Plot of the Iliad; Achilles, Hektor and the Fall of Troy; Achilles in Book 1; Hektor during the absence of Achilles; The Embassy; The Patrokleia; Hektor after the death of Patroklos; The death of Hektor and the structure of the Iliad; 3. Fighting in the Iliad; The ethos of Homeric fighting; The individual encounter; Necrologues and gloating speeches. 
505 8 |a Narrative patterns beyond the individual encounterThe progress of battle; 4. The Similes; The narrative function of the similes; The content of similes; The function of detail: the lion similes; Contrast and significance in the Iliadic image; The Homeric simile and the epic tradition; 5. The Gods; Human and divine motivation; The Homeric gods and their society; 6. Homeric Repetitions; The distribution of repetitions across the poems; Different patterns of repetition in the Iliad and Odyssey; Classifying repetitions by type: who speaks?; Rare repetitions, clustering and interdependence. 
505 8 |a 7. The Composition of the IliadThe development of the epic poem; The stages of the Iliad: a rough sketch; 8. The Life of the Iliad; First reflections of the Iliad: the Odyssey, tragedy and Plato; Homer and Vergil; The matter of Troy, Chapman and Shakespeare; Milton and Pope; The Iliad in a world of prose; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. 
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