Homer: Iliad Book I Schein Seth L.
Homer: Iliad Book I Schein Seth L. Book I of the Iliad marks the beginning of the first surviving work of Greek literature. It provides help with the morphology, grammar, and syntax of Homeric Greek,…
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Homer: Iliad Book I Schein Seth L.
Book I of the Iliad marks the beginning of the first surviving work of Greek literature. It provides help with the morphology, grammar, and syntax of Homeric Greek, situates the poem in its historical and poetic contexts, and elucidates its traditional language, meter, rhetoric, and style, as well as its distinctive transformation of traditional mythology and narrative motifs in accordance with its own interests, values, and poetic purposes. This edition with commentary enables readers at all levels to interpret the poetry with heightened pleasure and understanding.
Fully accessible to undergraduates and It also addresses the programmatic contrast in Book I between gods and humans; the characterization of both major and minor figures; and the thematic significance in Book I and the poem generally of the representation of social, cultural, religious, and ethical institutions and values.