A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer, Iliad VIII

by Adrian Kelly

Overview

This book aims to provide the reader of Homer with the traditional knowledge and fluency in Homeric poetry which an original ancient audience would have brought to a performance of this type of narrative. To that end, Adrian Kelly presents the text of Iliad VIII next to an apparatus referring to the traditional units being employed, and gives a brief description of their semantic impact. He describes the referential curve of the narrative in a continuous commentary, tabulates all the traditional units in a separate lexicon of Homeric structure, and examines critical decisions concerning the text in a discussion which employs the referential method as a critical criterion. Two small appendices deal with speech introduction formulae, and with the traditional function of Here and Athene in early Greek epic poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199203550
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2007
Series:	Oxford Classical Monographs
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.49(h) x 1.37(d)

About the Author

Adrian Kelly is Fulford Junior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Text and Referential Apparatus2. Commentary3. Lexicon4. Textual Discussion