Companion to the Iliad Willcock Malcolm M.
Companion to the Iliad Willcock Malcolm M. Those who are able to read Homer in Greek have ample recourse to commentaries, but the vast majority who read the Iliad in translation have not been so well…
Specifikacia Companion to the Iliad Willcock Malcolm M.
Companion to the Iliad Willcock Malcolm M.
Those who are able to read Homer in Greek have ample recourse to commentaries, but the vast majority who read the Iliad in translation have not been so well served--the many available translations contain few, if any, notes. Willcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains the many factual details, mythological allusions, and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Iliad.The notes, which always relate to particular lines in the text, have as their prime aim the simple, factual explanation of things the inexperienced reader would be unlikely to have at his or her command (What is a hecatomb? For these readers, Malcolm M.
Second, they enhance an appreciation of the Iliad by illuminating epic style, Homer's methods of composition, the structure of the work, Who is Atreus' son?).