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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819570503321

Autore

Kelly Adrian <1972->

Titolo

A referential commentary and lexicon to Iliad VIII / / by Adrian Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-19-198881-2

0-19-156866-X

1-4294-9835-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (526 p.)

Collana

Oxford Classical Monographs

Disciplina

883.01

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism

Trojan War - Literature and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Text and Referential Apparatus; 2. Commentary; 3. Lexicon; 4. Textual Discussion; Appendix A: Some Speech Introduction Formulae; Appendix B: Athene, Here, and Divine Stasis in Θ; Bibliography; Index of Elements; Index of Elements (English); A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Elements (Greek); Index of Episodes; A; D; E; G; H; I; K; M; N; O; P; S; T; Z; Index of Qualities; A; D; H; N; O; P; T; Z; Index of Passages

Sommario/riassunto

Adrian Kelly shows that familiarity with the oral background of Homeric poetry is vital for a proper appreciation of Homeric narrative. He presents the kind of information a modern reader requires to become as fluent in traditional epic poetry as an original ancient audience. - ;This book aims to provide the reader of Homer with the traditional knowledge and fluency in Homeric poetry which an original ancient audience would have brought to a performance of this type of narrative. To that end, Adrian Kelly presents the text of Iliad VIII next to an apparatus referring to the traditional units b