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.
| ISBN: | 9780199203550 |
| Publication date: | 22nd February 2007 |
| Author: | Adrian , Fulford Junior Research Fellow, St Annes College, Oxford University Kelly |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 528 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Classical Monographs |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval |