Author : Alfred Heubeck
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198721444
This three volume commentary also includes an introduction discussing previous research on the Odyssey, its relation to the Iliad, the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text.
Author : Homer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198788805
Since their composition almost 3,000 years ago the Homeric epics have lost none of their power to grip audiences and fire the imagination: with their stories of life and death, love and loss, war and peace they continue to speak to us at the deepest level about who we are across the span of generations. That being said, the world of Homer is in many ways distant from that in which we live today, with fundamental differences not only in language, social order, and religion, but in basic assumptions about the world and human nature. This volume offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to ancient Greek culture through the lens of Book One of the Odyssey, covering all of these aspects and more in a comprehensive Introduction designed to orient students in their studies of Greek literature and history. The full Greek text is included alongside a facing English translation which aims to reproduce as far as feasible the word order and sound play of the Greek original and is supplemented by a Glossary of Technical Terms and a full vocabulary keyed to the specific ways that words are used in Odyssey I. At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary, the first in English since the 1980s and updated to bring the latest scholarship to bear on the text: focusing on philological and linguistic issues, its close engagement with the original Greek yields insights that will be of use to scholars and advanced students as well as to those coming to the text for the first time.
Author : Adrian Kelly
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019156866X
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 being employed, and gives a brief description of their semantic impact. He describes the referential curve of the narrative in a continuous commentary, tabulates all the traditional units in a separate lexicon of Homeric structure, and examines critical decisions concerning the text in a discussion which employs the referential method as a critical criterion. Two small appendices deal with speech introduction formulae, and with the traditional function of Here and Athene in early Greek epic poetry.
Author : Marina Coray
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 150150441X
At the centre of the commentary on Book 19 of the Iliad is the interpretation of speeches and events at the assembly of the Achaean army. It is here that the argument between Achilles and Agamemnon was settled, thus enabling the Achaeans to take the field in the decisive battle against Hector and the Trojans.
Author : Kostas Myrsiades
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1684481325
Finalist for the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics section Homer’s Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey continues to be studied in universities and schools, and to be read and referred to by ordinary readers. Reading Homer’s Odyssey offers a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s themes that informs the non-specialist and engages the seasoned reader in new perspectives. Among the themes discussed are hospitality, survival, wealth, reputation and immortality, the Olympian gods, self-reliance and community, civility, behavior, etiquette and technology, ease, inactivity and stagnation, Penelope’s relationship with Odysseus, Telemachus’ journey, Odysseus’ rejection of Calypso’s offer of immortality, Odysseus’ lies, Homer’s use of the House of Atreus and other myths, the cinematic qualities of the epic’s structure, women’s role in the epic, and the Odyssey’s true ending. Footnotes clarify and elaborate upon myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the Odyssey, in addition to the bibliographies that accompany each book’s commentary. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author : Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Latin language
ISBN :
Author : Geoffrey Stephen Kirk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature
ISBN : 9780521281713
This is the first volume of a projected six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad, under the General Editorship of professor G.S. Kirk. Professor Kirk himself is the editor of the present volume, which covers the first four Books of Iliad. It consists of four introductory chapters, dealing in particular with rhythm and formular techniques, followed by the detailed commentary which aims at helping serious readers by attempting to identify and deal with most of the difficulties which might stand in the way of a sensitive and informed response to the poem. The Catalogues in Book 2 recieve especially full treatment. The book does not include a Greek text - important matters pertaining to the text are discussed in the commentary. It is hoped that the volume as a whole will lead scholars to a better understanding of the epic style as well as of many well-known thematic problems on a larger scale. This Commentary will be an essential reference work for all students of Greek literature. Archaeologists and historians will also find that it contains matters of relevance to them.
Author : Homer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521878845
The first commentary in English entirely devoted to the Iliad Book 6, illuminating some of the best-loved episodes in the whole poem.
Author : Homer Hailey
Publisher : Baker Publishing Group (MI)
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801040498
Author : Alfred Heubeck
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature
ISBN : 9780198149538
In this volume the commentary by Russo, Fernandez-Galiano, and Huebeck is preceded by introductions dealing with the books in question. For this English version the introduction and commentary have been thoroughly revised and adapted to the text of T. W. Allen in the Oxford Classical Texts series. There is also a consolidated index at the end of this volume.
