Oxford Readings in Homer's Iliad

by Douglas L. Cairns

Overview

This anthology makes accessible to the reader sixteen of the most important studies of Homer and the Iliad to appear in the last forty years. The essays, by leading Homeric scholars from Great Britain, the United States, and Europe, deal not only with the aesthetics and artistry of the Iliad as a poetic artefact, but with its historical context, its cultural background, and its ethical and political framework.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198721833
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/28/2002
Series:	Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Pages:	516
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.31(d)

About the Author

University of Glasgow

Table of Contents

1. The Use and Abuse of Homer, Ian Morris2. The Making of Homer, Walter Burkert3. From the Iliad to the Odyssey, R. B. Rutherford4. Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions?, Richard Gaskin5. Divine and Human Causation in Homeric Epic, Albin Lesky6. Affronts and Quarrels in the Iliad, Douglas L. Cairns7. Euboulia in the Iliad, Malcolm Schofield8. Tragic Form and Feeling in the Iliad, R. B. Rutherford9. Homer on Poetry and the Poetry of Homer, C. W. Macleod10. A 'Beautiful Death' and the Disfigured Corpse, Jean-Pierre Vernant11. The Shield of Achilles within the Iliad, Oliver Taplin12. The Epic Cycle and the Uniqueness of Homer, Jasper Griffin13. Past and Future in the Iliad, Wolfgang Kullmann14. The Wrath of Thetis, Laura M. Slatkin15. Mythological Paradigms in the Iliad, M. M. Willcock16. The Proem of the Iliad: Homer's Art, James Redfield17. Iliad I. 366-92: A Mirror Story, Irene J. F. de Jong