The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5, Books 17-20This is Volume Five of the major six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad now being prepared under the general editorship of Professor G.S. Kirk. Volumes I and II, published in 1985 and 1990 respectively, were edited by Professor Kirk himself. Like its predecessors, the present volume (the first to be edited by one of Professor Kirk's four collaborators) consists of four introductory essays (including discussions of similes and other features of narrative style) followed by the commentary. The Greek text is not included. This project is the first large-scale commentary on the Iliad for nearly one hundred years, and takes special account of language, style, and thematic structure as well as of the complex social and cultural background to the work. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
the narrators technique | 2 |
ii Foreshadowing | 7 |
Composition by theme | 11 |
ii Story patterns and neoanalysis | 15 |
iii Anticipation preparation and adaptation | 19 |
Similes | 24 |
i Form | 25 |
Style | 42 |
ii Ring composition | 44 |
iii Metaphor | 48 |
iv Hapax legomena | 53 |
v Rhetorical figures of speech | 55 |
COMMENTARY | 61 |
Book 18 | 139 |
Book 19 | 234 |
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Common terms and phrases
Agamemnon Aias Aineias Aithiopis Akhilleus Ameis-Hentze Antilokhos Apollo appears Aristarchus armour Arn/A Aspis Athene battle beginning Briseis bronze caesura Chantraine chariot clause common comparison corpse death Did/A Diomedes direct speech divine elsewhere enjambing epic epithet Euphorbos examples Fenik followed formular Glaukos gods Greek hapaxes Hektor hemistich Hephaistos hero Hesiod Hoekstra Homer horses HyAphr HyDem Idomeneus Iliad XXIV Introduction Jong killed later Leaf Lohmann meaning Menelaos mentioned metaphor metrical mid-verse motif narrative narrator note ad loc occurs Odysseus parallel passage Patroklos Peleus perhaps phrase poem poet poet's Poseidon Pouludamas Priam probably recurs Reden reference repeated ring form Risch runover Sarpedon scene scholia scholia bT second hemistich sense shield similar simile spear suggests TAPA Theogony Thetis Trojans Troy type-scene usual van der Valk verb verse Willcock words Wortbildung Zenodotus Zeus Zeus's δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε ὡς