Homer, the Iliad

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Title Statements

Full title :Homer, the Iliad / M.S. Silk.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2004.
Edition:2nd edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

Notes

La couv. porte : "A student guide"

The Physical Object

Description:1 vol. (VII -103 p.) ; : 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0521832330, 9780521832335, 052153996X (pbk), 9780521539968 (pbk)
oclc:ocn708318534
LC Classification:PA4037
Dewey Decimal:883/.01

1. Homer's world and the making of the Iliad. The Iliad and Mycenaean civilisation ; The Dark Age and eighth-century pan-Hellenism ; The date of the Iliad ; "Homer" ; Do we have Homer's Iliad? ; Oral poetry: performance and public ; Oral composition: the formulaic system ; Oral composition: conclusions ; The language of the Iliad ; Society in the Iliad ; The religious background -- 2. The poem. Summary ; Shape and structure ; Translation ; Stylisation and immediacy ; Heroism ; War ; Gods and men ; The caracters and their presentation ; Achilles ; Achilles and heroic ideology ; Conclusions -- 3. The Iliad and world literature. The after-life of the Iliad ; The Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid and Paradise lost

Subjects

Achille (Mythologie grecque) dans la li… Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature Achilles, (Mythological character) Criticism, interpretation, etc Epic poetry in Greek Epic poetry, Greek Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criti… Guerre de Troie -- Littérature et guerre Homer Homère (08..?-08..? av. J.-C.) Iliad (Homer) Literature Poésie épique grecque -- Histoire et cr… Trojan War -- Literature and the war