Wounding and death in the Iliad
Subtitle: Homeric techniques of description
By: Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich ; translated by Gabriele Wright and Peter Jones ; preface by Peter Jones ; appendix by K.B. Saunders.
Publisher: Duckworth
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Homer.; Homer -- Technique.; Wounds and injuries in literature.; Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.; Trojan War -- Literature and the war.; Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.; Death in literature.; Rhetoric, Ancient.
Description: W.-H. Friedrich's Verwundung und Tod in Der Ilias was originally published in 1956. Never before translated into English, its importance has slowly come to be recognised: first, because it discusses in detail the plausibility (or otherwise) of the wounds received on the Homeric battlefield and is therefore of considerable interest to historians of medicine; and second, because it makes a serious and sustained effort to grapple with the question of style, and thus confronts an issue which oral theory has scarcely touched. Peter Jones adds a Preface briefly locating the work within the terms of oral theory; Kenneth Saunders (Emeritus Professor of Medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, London) updates Friedrich's medical analyses in a full Appendix
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published as: Verwundung und Tod in der Ilias in 1956.