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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: making of the Iliad
    sub title: disquisition and analytical commentary
  name:
    name part: West, M. L. (Martin Litchfield)
    name part: 1937-2015
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: grc
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 441 pages) : illustrations, maps
  abstract: "The Iliad, the greatest of epic poems, still astonishes by its graphic brilliance, depth of humanity, and masterly construction. Martin West puts himself in the poet's shoes and reconstructs his aims and methods and the process by which he built up his mighty work and fixed it in writing. Drawing on two hundred years of Homeric scholarship and combining the best insights of Analysts and Unitarians, West shows how to distinguish the successive layers of composition that reflect the stages of the poet's workings, throwing light not only on the growth of the poem but also on the evolution of the poet's art and of his conception of the Trojan War. At the same time he points out the use of typical scenes and themes, material adapted from epic songs on other subjects, traditional techniques and motifs traceable back to Indo-European inheritance, and others taken over from the Near East. A persuasive picture is drawn of the poet in his historical context: brought up in north Ionia in the early decades of the seventh century, later travelling more widely, perhaps as far as Cyprus, finally finding patronage with the descendants of Aeneas in the Troad"--Publisher description, p. [4] of dust jacket
  table of contents: Disquisition : the making of the Iliad. Aims and assumptions ; The poet : when and where? ; Songs known and heard ; Troy and Achilles ; The growth of the poem ; Early reception and transmission -- Analytical commentary : the made Iliad.
  note: M.L. West.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-434) and index.
  note: English and Ancient Greek.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homer
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homer
    topic: Criticism, Textual
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Iliad (Homer)
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, Greek
    topic: Criticism, Textual
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, Greek
  classification: PA4037 .W48 2011
  classification: 883.01
  identifier: 9780191808296
  identifier: 0191808296
  identifier: 9780199590070
  identifier: 0199590079
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OH#
    record creation date: 150626
    record change date: 20260319161127.2
    record identifier: in00005712160
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng