Iliad 10 and the poetics of ambush : a multitext edition with essays and commentary

by: Due, C. Ebbott, M.

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This edition, commentary, and accompanying essays focus on the tenth book of the Iliad, which has been doubted, ignored, and even scorned. Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott use approaches based on oral traditional poetics to illuminate many of the interpretive questions that strictly literary approaches find unsolvable. The introductory essays explain their textual and interpretive approaches and explicate the ambush theme within the whole Greek epic tradition. The critical texts (presented as a sequence of witnesses, including the tenth-century Venetus A manuscript and select papyri) highlight the individual witnesses and the variations they offer. The commentary demonstrates how the unconventional Iliad 10 shares in the oral traditional nature of the whole epic, even though its poetics are specific to its nocturnal ambush plot.

 True to their multitextual approach to the text, Due and Ebbott have included a series of critical texts of Iliad 10, including the tenth-century Venetus A manuscript and select papyri, and discuss these individual witnesses and the variations they offer. The essays and commentary explore Iliad 10 within the larger contexts of Homeric epic and the epic tradition.

Part I: essays
Part II: texts
Part III: commentary

Subjects:
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Epic poetry, Greek
Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism
Guerre de Troie Poésie
Homer. Book 10
Homère. 10"
Homère. 10" commentaire
Iliad (Homer)
Ilias (Homerus)
Ilias 10
Kommentar
Poetry
Poésie
Poésie épique grecque
Poésie épique grecque Histoire et critique
Receptie
Trojan War Literature and the war
Trojan War Poetry
poetry

Series:
Hellenic studies, 39

xi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Parallel Ancient Greek text with English translation

Iliad 10 and the poetics of ambush : a multitext edition with essays and commentary

by: Due, C. Ebbott, M.

• ISBN-13: 9780674035591 / 978-0-674-03559-1
• ISBN-03: 0674035593 / 0-674-03559-3
• Center for Hellenic Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2010

Price: 26,00 EURO

1 copy in stock