Homer's Iliad : a commentary on the translation of Richmond Lattimore / Norman Postlethwaite

By:

Postlethwaite, Norman [author]

Publisher: Exeter, UK : University of Exeter Press, 2000Description: 324 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780859896849
0859896846

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DDC classification:

872.01 WIS 23

Summary: "This book introduces the general reader, as well as the student of Classics, to the Iliad of Homer, the earliest work of European literature and one of its greatest masterpieces. This new commentary offers the background which readers of the poem in English need in order to understand its detail of story and characters. It provides a line-by-line guide to the story's unravelling and to the literary features which have ensured the enduring popularity of the Iliad since its composition in 750 BC."--Jacket.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Anna Centenary Library	872.01 WIS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	465298

"This book introduces the general reader, as well as the student of Classics, to the Iliad of Homer, the earliest work of European literature and one of its greatest masterpieces. This new commentary offers the background which readers of the poem in English need in order to understand its detail of story and characters. It provides a line-by-line guide to the story's unravelling and to the literary features which have ensured the enduring popularity of the Iliad since its composition in 750 BC."--Jacket.

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