A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer, Iliad VIII

ISBN: 9780199203550

³ö°æÉç: Oxford University Press, USA

³ö°æÄê: 2007-4-19

Ò³Êý: 528

¶¨¼Û: USD 199.00

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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.