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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462702903321

Autore

Mueller Martin <1939->

Titolo

The Iliad / / Martin Mueller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bristol Classical Press, , 2009

ISBN

1-4725-2117-X

1-4725-2118-8

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Bristol classical paperbacks

Disciplina

883.01

883/.01

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism

Trojan War - Literature and the war

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous ed.: London: Allen & Unwin, 1984.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Plot of the Iliad -- Fighting in the Iliad -- The simile -- The gods -- The Composition of the Iliad -- The Life of the Iliad.

Sommario/riassunto

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 repet