The IliadNo 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. |
Contents
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2 The Plot of the Iliad | 35 |
3 Fighting in the Iliad | 76 |
4 The Similes | 102 |
5 The Gods | 116 |
6 Homeric Repetitions | 135 |
7 The Composition of the Iliad | 173 |
8 The Life of the Iliad | 187 |
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Achaeans Achilleus Aeneas Aeneid Agamemnon Aias Andromache anger Antilochos Aphrodite Apollo appears aristeia armour Athene attack battle beginning body of Patroklos Book 13 century character chariot close common composition context contrast death of Hektor death of Patroklos describes Diomedes divine doublets duel Early Greek epic elaborate Euphorbos Eurypylos fall fate father fighting Glaukos gods hand Hektor Helen Hera heroic hexameter Homeric narrative Homeric repetitions Homeric scholarship honour human idiomatic Idomeneus Iliad Iliad and Odyssey individual encounter injuries killed lines lion Lykaon Menelaos motif Nestor occasions occurs Odyssean Odysseus oral Pandaros Paris passages Patrokleia Peleus perspective phrase phusizoos poem poet poet’s poetic poetry Pope’s Poseidon Poulydamas Priam reader recognise repeated response retreat role Sarpedon scene sense ships simile spear speech story sword takes tells Teukros theme Thetis tradition Trojan War Trojans Troy turns Vergil victim warrior words wound Zeus