The Iliad (BC Paperbacks Series)
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| Management number | 233425668 | Release Date | 2026/06/27 | List Price | $12.20 | Model Number | 233425668 | ||
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No Western text boasts a life as long as the "Iliad", and few can match its energy and glory. This introduction to Homer's poem sees it as rooted in a particular culture with narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry. Professor Mueller follows Plato and Aristotle in seeing the plot of the "Iliad" as a distinctly Homeric 'invention' which shaped Attic tragedy and the concept of dramatic action in Western literature. In this second edition the text has been revised in many places, and a new chapter on Homeric repetitions has been added. Read more
| ASIN | B00GNZ2F40 |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-1472521170 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| File size | 5.3 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 220 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Publication date | November 1, 2013 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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