Homer : The iliad

by: Silk, M.

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 Michael Silk's volume of The Iliad explores the historical context, composition and extensive influence as well as the poem's style, character-portrayal and ideology. This volume is a prevalent assessment that both Homeric specialist and general readers will find useful.

Michael Silk's volume offers a prevalent assessment of The Iliad both for the Homeric specialist and general reader. His starting point is the relationship between Homer's world (the eighth century BC) and the remote heroic age in which the events of the punitive Greek expedition against Troy were set. He deals with the poem's historical context, composition, and extensive influence, and stresses the coherence and inter-relations of such apparently separate aspects of the poem as its style, character-portrayal and ideology.

Contents:
Preface and note;
1. Homer's world and the making of the Iliad;
2. The poem.

Subjects:
Achilles (Mythological character) in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Epic poetry, Greek
Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism
Homer
Homère
Iliad (Homer)
Poésie épique grecque Histoire et critique
Trojan War Literature and the war

Series:
Landmarks of world literature

Homer : The iliad

by: Silk, M.

• ISBN-13: 9780521313025 / 978-0-521-31302-5
• ISBN-03: 0521313023 / 0-521-31302-3
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987

Price: 18,00 EURO

1 copy in stock