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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809664003321

Titolo

Homer's Illiad Prolegomena : The Basel commentary / / edited by Anton Bierl, Joachim Latacz, S. Douglas Olson ; with contributions by Fritz Graf [and seven others] ; translated by Benjamin W. Millis and Sara Strack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-5015-0174-7

1-5015-0182-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Homer’s Iliad

Disciplina

883.01

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Greek

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the 1st Edition (2000) -- Preface to the English Edition -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Commenting on Homer. From the Beginnings to this Commentary (COM) -- History of the Text (HT) -- Formularity and Orality (FOR) -- Grammar of Homeric Greek (G) -- Homeric Meter (M) -- Cast of Characters of the Iliad: Gods (CG) -- Cast of Characters of the Iliad: Human Beings (CH) -- The Structure of the Iliad (STR) -- Homeric Poetics in Keywords (P) -- New Trends in Homeric Scholarship (NTHS) -- Character Index -- Homeric – Mycenaean Word Index (MYC) -- Bibliographic Abbreviations

Sommario/riassunto

The Prolegomena provide an introduction to the Basler Iliad commentary. The volume includes essays on the history of Iliad commentaries and the text, formulaic language and the oral tradition, grammar, meter, characters, plot and chronological structure, narrative technique, and developments in Homeric criticism, as well as an Index of Mycenaean words with brief explanations.