Nature and Culture in the Iliad
Subtitle: The Tragedy of Hector, Expanded edition
Edition: Expanded edition
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780822314226
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; Epic poetry, Greek; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literary Criticism; Ancient Greece; Homer; Ancient and Classical; Classics; paper; Characters; Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature; Hector; Hector (Legendary character) in literature; Iliad; Knowledge
First sentence: THE NEXT TWO CHAPTERS constitute a largely self-contained essay in which we turn aside from the narrative of the Iliad and discuss some theoretical problems posed by the Iliad and by narrative in general.