Companion to the Iliad

Name: Companion to the Iliad
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ISBN: 9780226898551

ISBN-10: 0226898555

ISBN-13: 9780226898551

Edition: 1976

Authors: Malcolm M. Willcock

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Those who are able to read Homer in Greek have ample recourse to commentaries, but the vast majority who read the Iliad in translation have not been so well served--the many available translations contain few, if any, notes. For these readers, Malcolm M. Willcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains the many factual details, mythological allusions, and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Iliad. nbsp; The notes, which always relate to particular lines in the text, have as their prime aim the simple, factual explanation of things the inexperienced reader would be unlikely to have at his or her…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 1976
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/1976
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Figures


Preface











































































Transmission of the Tex of theIliadand Commentaries on It



Methods of Fighting in theIliad



Mythology and the Gods



The ""AithiopisTheory""


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