Description
Book SynopsisIt offers the background which readers need to understand the poem's detail of story and characters, and it provides a step-by-step guide to the story's unravelling and to the literary features which have ensured its enduring popularity since its composition in 750 BC.
Trade ReviewWith clarity and dispatch Postlethwaite manages to provide the background knowledge that an ancient audience would have brought to the poem, noting as well significant thematic developments and directing the reader to a wide range of present-day Homeric studies. Teachers and readers for whom Lattimore’s stately cadences capture Homer’s Greek most directly will find here an indispensable companion to that most literally faithful of modern translations.
Andrew Ford, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents
- PREFACE
- MAPS OF GREECE
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. HOMER
- 2. THE HOMERIC EPICS
- 3. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
- 4. THE TROJAN WAR
- 5. COMPOSITION
- 6. THE HOMERIC QUESTION
- 7. SOME FEATURES OF STYLE
- 8. THE HERO
- 9. THE GODS
- COMMENTARY
- ILIAD ONE
- ILIAD TWO
- ILIAD THREE
- ILIAD FOUR
- ILIAD FIVE
- ILIAD SIX
- ILIAD SEVEN
- ILIAD EIGHT
- ILIAD NINE
- ILIAD TEN
- ILIAD ELEVEN
- ILIAD TWELVE
- ILIAD THIRTEEN
- ILIAD FOURTEEN
- ILIAD FIFTEEN
- ILIAD SIXTEEN
- ILIAD SEVENTEEN
- ILIAD EIGHTEEN
- ILIAD NINETEEN
- ILIAD TWENTY
- ILIAD TWENTY-ONE
- ILIAD TWENTY-TWO
- ILIAD TWENTY-THREE
- ILIAD TWENTY-FOUR
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
