Selections from Homer's Iliad

Name: Selections from Homer's Iliad
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ISBN: 9780806133638

ISBN-10: 0806133635

ISBN-13: 9780806133638

Edition: 2001

Authors: Allen Rogers Benner, Mark W. Edwards

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First published in 1903, Selections from Homer's Iliadhas become a classic Greek textbook. Allen Rogers Benner presents selections from twelve books of the Iliadboth in Greek and English. Short summaries between books bridge the narrative and aid the student in gaining a comprehensive view of the Iliadas a work of literature and art. Invaluable resources include an extensive section of notes on the text, a short Homeric grammar, and a vocabulary and Greek index. In a new foreword, Mark W. Edwards argues for the utility of Benner's text while offering a useful summary of current scholarship on the historical sources of the epic, Greek oral tradition, and Homeric style and diction. Benner's…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 12/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Foreword



Homer and His World


The Gods of the Iliad


The Singer and the Tradition


The Story and How It Is Told


Homeric Diction


Other Features of Homeric Style


Further Reading


Preface


Introduction to Homer's Iliad


Origin and Transmission of the Greek Epic


The Homeric Age


Dress in the Homeric Age


Armor in the Homeric Age


Book



A entire



B 1483m 780-815



[Gamma] entire



E 274-352, 432-448



Z 237-529



I entire



O 592-746



[Pi] 1-167, 198-305, 419-507, 663-867



[Sigma] entire



T 1-73, 276-300, 392-424



X entire



[Omega] 472-691


A Table of Parallel References


A Short Homeric Grammar



The Dactylic Hexameter



Elision, Contraction, Synizesis, etc.



Inflections--Word-formation



Prepositions and Adverbs



Syntax


A Vocabulary and Greek Index


An English Index