Homer: Iliad Book I

Homer: Iliad Book I by Seth L Schein

Book I of the Iliad marks the beginning of the first surviving work of Greek literature. This edition with commentary enables readers at all levels to interpret the poetry with heightened pleasure and understanding. It provides help with the morphology, grammar, and syntax of Homeric Greek, situates the poem in its historical and poetic contexts, and elucidates its traditional language, meter, rhetoric, and style, as well as its distinctive transformation of traditional mythology and narrative motifs in accordance with its own interests, values, and poetic purposes. It also addresses the programmatic contrast in Book I between gods and humans; the characterization of both major and minor figures; and the thematic significance in Book I and the poem generally of the representation of social, cultural, religious, and ethical institutions and values. Fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, this edition also contains much of value for the scholar.

'… it will benefit all who consult itReading it, one feels confident of being in the sure hands of scholar who has thought deeply about the poem over a long career. The edition's rich scholarship, full and careful treatment of myriad issues, thoughtful judgments, and attention to both the small items and the big picture open up the marvels of the Iliad. For decades to come it will prove a valuable companion for anyone reading the poem's opening book.' Michael Halleran, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
'[Schein] copes smoothly with the challenges facing an editor of this crucial book: how to pick out what he needs to highlight from the vast range of Homeric scholarship and compress it into the limited pages offered by a standard series, at one and the same time providing an introduction to undergraduate and postgraduate students and retaining the interest of [scholars].' Anthony Verity, Classics for All (https://classicsforall.org.uk)

Seth Schein is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of six books, three of which are on Homer: The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad (1984), Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays (1996) [edited], and Homeric Epic and its Reception: Interpretive Essays (2016). He has also edited Sophocles' Philoctetes for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.

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ISBN 13	9781108412964
ISBN 10	1108412963
Titre	Homer: Iliad Book I
Auteur	Seth L Schein
Série	Cambridge Greek And Latin Classics
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Cambridge University Press
Année de publication	2022-06-30
Nombre de pages	256
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