The Iliad: A CommentaryThis 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. |
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Contents
preliminary considerations | 1 |
iii The possible contribution of literacy to | 10 |
The structural elements of Homeric verse | 17 |
Aristarchus and the scholia | 38 |
The first four Books of the Iliad in context | 44 |
Book 2 | 115 |
Special index to Commentary on the Achaean | 168 |
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according Achaean Agamemnon Aias Akhilleus ancient Aphrodite Apollo Argos Aristarchus Arn/A armour army Athene athetized Boeotian Bronze Age caesura catalogue century B.C. Chantraine chariot close connexion contingent corslet cumulation described detail developed Dict Did/A Diomedes divine duel elaborate elsewhere enjambment Epeans epic epithet especially evidently father fighting formular formular verse goddess Greek Hektor Helen heroic Hesiod Homer idea Idomeneus Iliad implies integral enjambment Khruses killed Lakedaimon later leaders Leaf least means Menelaos Menestheus mentioned metrical motif Mukenai Mycenaean Nestor oath occurs Odysseus Olumpos oral Pandaros paralleled Paris passage Patroklos Pausanias perhaps Philoktetes phrase poem poet post-Homeric presumably Priam probably recurs reference rising threefolder river runover-word sense sentence Shipp ships simile singer spear specific speech Strabo suggests Thebes Thessaly Thetis tradition Troad Trojans troops Troy Tudeus verb verse-end vulgate whole words Zeleia Zenodotus Zeus Zeus's δὲ καὶ τε