Homer and his Iliad / Robin Lane Fox.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781541600447
- 1541600444
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A "compelling and impressive" ( Sunday Times ) reassessment of the Iliad , uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful
The Iliad is the world's greatest epic poem--heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure?
Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition--subjects of ongoing controversy--combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader's sensitivity. Lane Fox considers hallmarks of the poem; its values, implicit and explicit; its characters; its women; its gods; and even its horses.
Thousands of readers turn to the Iliad every year. Drawing on fifty years of reading and research, Lane Fox offers us a breathtaking tour of this magnificent text, revealing why the poem has endured for ages.
Prologue: enigmatic Homer -- Part 1. Homer and his Iliad: where? -- 'When first they quarreled...' -- Doing things with words -- Tracking Homer -- Homer's heartland -- Unstitching the Iliad -- Plotting an epic -- Part II. Composing the Iliad: how? -- 'Sing, o goddess...' -- Homeric fieldwork -- Singers of tales -- The uses of analogy -- A great dictator -- Part III. Composing the Iliad: when? -- Problems of literacy -- Trojan Wars -- 'Not as mortal men are now...' -- Dating Homer -- In transmission -- Part IV. Heroic hallmarks. -- Heroism: the highlights -- 'Not ingloriously may I die...' -- 'If it must be so...' -- Heroic ethics -- Heroes at play -- Heroism and hyper-reality -- Shame and glory -- Character and background -- Equine poetics -- Swift-footed Achilles -- Part V. Parallel worlds. -- The heavenly family -- Sublime frivolity? -- White-armed women -- Royal mothers -- The natural world -- 'As when...' -- The shield of Achilles -- Ruthless Poignancy.
Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition--subjects of ongoing controversy--combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader's sensitivity. Lane Fox considers hallmarks of the poem; its values, implicit and explicit; its characters; its women; its gods; and even its horses.
Includes bibliographical references and index.