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Oxford Readings in Homer's Iliad

Edited by Douglas L. Cairns

Price: £34.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-872182-6
Publication date: 24 January 2002
520 pages, 216x138 mm
Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
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' Accessibility is the major boon of this book ... This is a good purchase for anyone studying or teaching the Iliad who has not got the resources of a good university library readily available. ' - The Journal of Classics Teaching

Description

Written by a distinguished team of international contributors
Several chapters revised and updated
Includes a comprehensive introduction
All Greek translated
Glossary of key Greek terms

This anthology makes accessible to the reader sixteen of the most important studies of Homer and the Iliad to appear in the last forty years. The essays, by leading Homeric scholars from Great Britain, the United States, and Europe, deal not only with the aesthetics and artistry of the Iliad as a poetic artefact, but with its historical context, its cultural background, and its ethical and political framework. Other major topics include the relation between the Iliad and other early epics (the Odyssey , the Epic Cycle ), the interface between epic and other genres, such as tragedy, and the complex interaction that exists between the Iliad and the wider traditions of oral poetry and mythical narrative in which it belongs.

Two of the contributions have been translated especially for this volume; several have been thoroughly revised and updated, and others are provided with Addenda taking account of recent work in the field. In a detailed and wide-ranging introduction Douglas Cairns sets the contributions in the context of contemporary scholarship and explores significant connections between them. All Greek is translated and a glossary of transliterated Greek terms is provided.

Readership: Scholars and students interested in Greek literature (especially Homer), society, and thought.

Contents

1. The Use and Abuse of Homer , Ian Morris

2. The Making of Homer , Walter Burkert

3. From the Iliad to the Odyssey , R. B. Rutherford

4. Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions? , Richard Gaskin

5. Divine and Human Causation in Homeric Epic , Albin Lesky

6. Affronts and Quarrels in the Iliad , Douglas L. Cairns

7. Euboulia in the Iliad , Malcolm Schofield

8. Tragic Form and Feeling in the Iliad , R. B. Rutherford

9. Homer on Poetry and the Poetry of Homer , C. W. Macleod

10. A 'Beautiful Death' and the Disfigured Corpse , Jean-Pierre Vernant

11. The Shield of Achilles within the Iliad , Oliver Taplin

12. The Epic Cycle and the Uniqueness of Homer , Jasper Griffin

13. Past and Future in the Iliad , Wolfgang Kullmann

14. The Wrath of Thetis , Laura M. Slatkin

15. Mythological Paradigms in the Iliad , M. M. Willcock

16. The Proem of the Iliad : Homer's Art , James Redfield

17. Iliad I. 366-92: A Mirror Story , Irene J. F. de Jong

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Douglas L. Cairns, Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow

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