The Iliad: A Commentary
Volume 5. Books 17-20
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- Editor: Mark W. Edwards
- Date Published: October 1991
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521312080
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This is Volume Five of the major six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad now being prepared under the general editorship of Professor G.S. Kirk. Volumes I and II, published in 1985 and 1990 respectively, were edited by Professor Kirk himself. Like its predecessors, the present volume (the first to be edited by one of Professor Kirk's four collaborators) consists of four introductory essays (including discussions of similes and other features of narrative style) followed by the commentary. The Greek text is not included. This project is the first large-scale commentary on the Iliad for nearly one hundred years, and takes special account of language, style, and thematic structure as well as of the complex social and cultural background to the work.
Read more- One of two new volumes to appear in the series begun by Kirk and all carried out under his General Editorship
- This will be the only full commentary on The Iliad at this level
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"Edwards' model commentary, well-informed, sensible, lucidly expressed, consistently furnishes judicious and discerning appreciations of Homer's poetic methods and materials. All students of the Iliad will do well to use the Cambridge commentary, and particularly this component of it." Classical World
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- Date Published: October 1991
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521312080
- length: 376 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 154 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- contains: 3 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The narrator and the audience
2. Composition by theme
3. Similes
4. Style
Commentary
Book 17
Book 18
Book 19
Book 20
Index.
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