The Iliad
Subtitle: A Commentary (Iliad, a Commentary)
Contributors: Richard Janko (Editor); G. S. Kirk (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 31, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780521281744
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literature and the war; History and criticism; Poetry; Ancient and Classical; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Literature: Classics; Homer; General; Homer - Iliad; Homer - Iliad Homer - Iliad; Language Arts & Disciplines-General; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Trojan War; Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature; Achilles (Greek mythology) in; Epic poetry, Greek; Iliad
First sentence: The artificial diction of the Homeric poems ('Kunstsprache') is in essence identical to that of the other poems in the same tradition of oral narrative song in hexameters, i.e. the remnants of the Epic Cycle, the Hesiodic poems and 'Homeric' Hymns, which extend well into the sixth century.