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Oxford readings in Homer's Iliad /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cairns, Douglas L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Series:Oxford readings in classical studies.
Subjects:
Homer. > Iliad.
Achilles > (Mythological character) > In literature.
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Troy (Extinct city) > In literature.
Trojan War > Literature and the war.
Table of Contents:
  • The use and abuse of Homer / Ian Morris
  • The making of Homer in the sixth century BC : rhapsodes versus stesichorus / Walter Burkert
  • From the Iliad to the Odyssey / R.B. Rutherford Do Homeric heroes make real decisions? / Richard Gaskin
  • Divine and human causation in Homeric epic / Albin Lesky
  • Affronts and quarrels in the Iliad / Douglas L. Cairns
  • Euboulia in the Iliad / Malcolm Schofield
  • Tragic form and feeling in the Iliad / R.B. Rutherford
  • Homer on poetry and the poetry of Homer / C.W. Macleod
  • A 'beautiful death' and the disfigured corpse in Homeric epic / Jean-Pierre Vernant
  • The shield of Achilles within the Iliad / Oliver Taplin
  • The epic cycle and the uniqueness of Homer / Jasper Griffin
  • Past and future in the Iliad / Wolfgang Kullmann
  • The wrath of Thetis / Laura M. Slatkin
  • Mythological paradeigma in the Iliad / M.M. Willcock
  • The proem of the Iliad : Homer's art / James Redfield
  • Iliad I. 366-92 : a mirror story / Irene J.F. De Jong.