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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812338103321

Autore

Louden Bruce <1954->

Titolo

The Iliad : structure, myth, and meaning / / Bruce Louden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2006

ISBN

0-8018-8918-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 pages)

Disciplina

884/.01

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism

Trojan War - Literature and the war

Rhetoric, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-329) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: The Principal Narrative Pattern -- CHAPTER TWO: The Overture -- CHAPTER THREE: The Middle Sequence: Parody of the Narrative Pattern -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Introductory Pattern: The Best of the Akhaians Calls an Assembly -- CHAPTER FIVE: Subgenres of Myth in the Iliad I -- CHAPTER SIX: Subgenres of Myth in the Iliad II -- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Iliad's Divine Economy, the Goddess Anat, and the Homeric Athena -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- D -- E -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- U -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Louden's innovative method yields striking new insights into the formation and early literary contexts of Greek epic poetry.