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The Iliad.
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 propert...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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| Colección: | BC Paperbacks Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; 1. Introduction; History and the Iliad; The poet(s) of Homer; Homo homericus and the question of oral poetry; The Iliad and Odyssey; The Homeric hexameter; Interpreting Homeric repetitions; 2. The Plot of the Iliad; Achilles, Hektor and the Fall of Troy; Achilles in Book 1; Hektor during the absence of Achilles; The Embassy; The Patrokleia; Hektor after the death of Patroklos; The death of Hektor and the structure of the Iliad; 3. Fighting in the Iliad; The ethos of Homeric fighting; The individual encounter; Necrologues and gloating speeches.
- Narrative patterns beyond the individual encounterThe progress of battle; 4. The Similes; The narrative function of the similes; The content of similes; The function of detail: the lion similes; Contrast and significance in the Iliadic image; The Homeric simile and the epic tradition; 5. The Gods; Human and divine motivation; The Homeric gods and their society; 6. Homeric Repetitions; The distribution of repetitions across the poems; Different patterns of repetition in the Iliad and Odyssey; Classifying repetitions by type: who speaks?; Rare repetitions, clustering and interdependence.
- 7. The Composition of the IliadThe development of the epic poem; The stages of the Iliad: a rough sketch; 8. The Life of the Iliad; First reflections of the Iliad: the Odyssey, tragedy and Plato; Homer and Vergil; The matter of Troy, Chapman and Shakespeare; Milton and Pope; The Iliad in a world of prose; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.