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Homer : poet of the Iliad by Edwards, Professor Mark W. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Homer : poet of the Iliad about?

Combines A General Introduction And A Detailed Commentary To Make Insights Of Recent Homeric Scholarship Accessible To Students And General Readers As Well As To Classicists. The Purpose And Plan Of This Book -- Homeric Style: Some Basic Features -- The Scale And Structure Of The Poems -- Characteristics Of Homeric Poetry -- The Bard, Oral Poetry, And Our Present Text -- The Bard In Homer -- Homer The Singer -- The Techniques Of Oral Poetry -- The Establishment Of The Text -- Narrative: The Poet's Voice -- Language -- Meter And Formulae -- Word Order And Emphasis -- Story Patterns And Use Of Myth -- Large-scale Story Patterns -- Small-scale Patterns -- Homer's Adaptation Of Myth -- Type-scenes And Expansion -- Battle Scenes -- Description -- Speeches, Soliloquies, And Characterization -- Speeches -- Soliloquies -- Characterization -- Paradigms And Aphorisms -- Similes -- Metaphors -- Symbolism -- Sound -- Word Play And Significant Names -- Gods, Fate, And Mortality -- The Gods As The Religion Of The Characters -- The Gods As A Compositional Device -- Mortals And The Gods -- Personification And Psychology -- Honor, Proper Behavior, And Warfare -- Honor -- The Proper Way To Behave --

Who reads Homer : poet of the Iliad?

Author

Edwards, Professor Mark W.

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1987.

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801833298

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Poetry