Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Plot of the Iliad 3. Fighting in the Iliad 4. The Similes 5. The Gods 6. Homeric Repetitions 7. The Composition of the Iliad 8. The Life of the Iliad Bibliography Index
Offers an introduction to Homer's poem which sees it as rooted in a particular culture with its own narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry.
Martin Mueller is Professor of English and Classics at Northwestern University. He is the author of "Children of Oedipus and Other Essays on the Imitation of greek Tragedy, 1500-1800". Together with Ahuvia Kahane, he edited The Chicago Homer, a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek (http://www.library.northwestern.edu/homer).
For those of us introduced to the Iliad by the first edition of
this book, the second is welcome, and not least for making its
material readily available once more. Despite the plethora of
recent (and imminent) general introductions and companions to
Homer, this book should enjoy something of the popularity obtained
by its predecessor, not least because it is written in a lucid and
jargon-free style that should serve as a model for anyone producing
a work of this sort.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
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