Description
Book SynopsisSlatkin’s influential book explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the
Iliad, showing how our awareness of alternative myths brings a far greater understanding of Thetis’s place in the Epic’s thematic structure. This edition also includes six additional essays, which cover a broad range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic.
Trade ReviewIn reading the silences, the aural equivalent of the 'spaces on the page,' Slatkin is both careful and bold: she combs with care through the language of Homer, but is not afraid to make bold inferences and associations...The accumulation of suggestive evidence, the logical progression of her argument, and the consistency of her explanations coalesce into a book that has changed the way I read the
Iliad. -- Andrew Sprague * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
This slender, even modest, volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the
Iliad by revealing the richness and the complexity of the background from which the poet shaped his narrative. -- Jenny Strauss Clay * Classical Journal *
In reading the silences, the aural equivalent of the 'spaces on the page,' Slatkin is both careful and bold: she combs with care through the language of Homer, but is not afraid to make bold inferences and associations...The accumulation of suggestive evidence, the logical progression of her argument, and the consistency of her explanations coalesce into a book that has changed the way I read the
Iliad. -- Andrew Sprague * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
