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- ISBN 9780674035591
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 140 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2010
- Publisher: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This edition, commentary, and accompanying essays focus on the tenth book of the Iliad, which has been doubted, ignored, and even scorned. Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott use approaches based on oral traditional poetics to illuminate many of the interpretive questions that strictly literary approaches find unsolvable. The introductory essays explain their textual and interpretive approaches and explicate the ambush theme within the whole Greek epic tradition. The critical texts (presented as a sequence of witnesses, including the tenth-century Venetus A manuscript and select papyri) highlight the individual witnesses and the variations they offer. The commentary demonstrates how the unconventional Iliad 10 shares in the oral traditional nature of the whole epic, even though its poetics are specific to its nocturnal ambush plot.
Casey Dué is Professor and Director of Classical Studies at the University of Houston. Mary Ebbott is Associate Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross.
