The Iliad
Subtitle: Structure, Myth, and Meaning
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 5, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801882807
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literature and the war; History and criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hellenic languages; Trojan War; Ancient and Classical; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Epic poetry, Greek; Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature
First sentence: In analyzing the principal narrative pattern, the string of connected motifs that underlies books 4-7 and 20-24, I especially note parallels between the aristeiai of Diomedes and Akhilleus, and Hektor's duels with Aias and Akhilleus.