Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad
Regular price
€120.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
automatic-update
B01=Jonathan L. Ready
B13=Jonathan L. Ready
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DSBB
Category=DSC
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€100 and above
PS=Active
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9780198869870
- Weight: 758g
- Dimensions: 170 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jul 2024
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devoting one chapter to each one. Contributors summarize the plot of a book and then explore its themes and poetics, providing both close readings of individual passages and synthetic reviews of current scholarship. This format allows readers to study the poem in the same manner in which they read it: book by book. Differing from other introductions to the Iliad that comprise chapters on specific topics and themes, the volume offers accessible and actionable discussions of concepts pertinent to each book of the poem. Differing from other introductory volumes that are written by a single author, this volume allows for a polyphony of critical voices and showcases the diversity of approaches to the Iliad. Finally, differing from commentaries keyed to the Greek text, this volume is completely accessible to those who do not read Homeric Greek. These features make the volume an essential resource for those studying the Iliad in translation and in the original Greek, for those in classical studies and in other disciplines, and for teachers and students, both those at the undergraduate level and those at the graduate level.
Jonathan L. Ready is a professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan. He has also taught at the University of Miami and at Indiana University. He has published four monographs on Homeric poetry, three with Oxford, and co-edited Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters (2018).
