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基本説明
This anthology of 16 seminal studies of Homer's Iliad offers essential insights into the poem's artistry and cultural background. Two of the contributions have been translated for this volume and others have been revised and updated.
Full Description
This anthology makes accessible to the reader sixteen of the most important studies of Homer and the Iliad to appear in the last forty years. The essays, by leading Homeric scholars from Great Britain, the United States, and Europe, deal not only with the aesthetics and artistry of the Iliad as a poetic artefact, but with its historical context, its cultural background, and its ethical and political framework. Other major topics include the relation between the Iliad and other early epics (the Odyssey, the Epic Cycle), the interface between epic and other genres, such as tragedy, and the complex interaction that exists between the Iliad and the wider traditions of oral poetry and mythical narrative in which it belongs.
Two of the contributions have been translated especially for this volume; several have been thoroughly revised and updated, and others are provided with Addenda taking account of recent work in the field. In a detailed and wide-ranging introduction Douglas Cairns sets the contributions in the context of contemporary scholarship and explores significant connections between them. All Greek is translated and a glossary of transliterated Greek terms is provided.
Contents
1. The Use and Abuse of Homer ; 2. The Making of Homer ; 3. From the Iliad to the Odyssey ; 4. Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions? ; 5. Divine and Human Causation in Homeric Epic ; 6. Affronts and Quarrels in the Iliad ; 7. Euboulia in the Iliad ; 8. Tragic Form and Feeling in the Iliad ; 9. Homer on Poetry and the Poetry of Homer ; 10. A 'Beautiful Death' and the Disfigured Corpse ; 11. The Shield of Achilles within the Iliad ; 12. The Epic Cycle and the Uniqueness of Homer ; 13. Past and Future in the Iliad ; 14. The Wrath of Thetis ; 15. Mythological Paradigms in the Iliad ; 16. The Proem of the Iliad: Homer's Art ; 17. Iliad I. 366-92: A Mirror Story