A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer, Iliad VIII
ISBN13: 9780199203550ISBN10: 0199203555
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528 pages
Mar 2007,
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Description
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.Features
- Equips the reader with the necessary knowledge of the oral background to properly appreciate Homeric poetry
- Includes a detailed examination of structural units of every scale, to facilitate further research
About the Author(s)
Adrian Kelly is Fulford Junior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford University.
