Homer: Iliad Book VI

Homer: Iliad Book VI PDF Author: Homer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521878845
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
The first commentary in English entirely devoted to the Iliad Book 6, illuminating some of the best-loved episodes in the whole poem.

Iliad. Book VI

Iliad. Book VI PDF Author: Homer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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The Iliad

The Iliad PDF Author: Karin Sisti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780600310617
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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The Shield of Achilles

The Shield of Achilles PDF Author: W. H. Auden
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691256586
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers The Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately designed, and unified book of poetry. In addition to its famous title poem, which reimagines Achilles’s shield for the modern age, when war and heroism have changed beyond recognition, the book also includes two sequences—“Bucolics” and “Horae Canonicae”—that Auden believed to be among his most significant work. Featuring an authoritative text and an introduction and notes by Alan Jacobs, this volume brings Auden’s collection back into print for the first time in decades and offers the only critical edition of the work. As Jacobs writes in the introduction, Auden’s collection “is the boldest and most intellectually assured work of his career, an achievement that has not been sufficiently acknowledged.” Describing the book’s formal qualities and careful structure, Jacobs shows why The Shield of Achilles should be seen as one of Auden’s most central poetic statements—a richly imaginative, beautifully envisioned account of what it means to live, as human beings do, simultaneously in nature and in history.

Homer: Iliad Book XVIII

Homer: Iliad Book XVIII PDF Author: Homer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107067774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
Presents an edition of this outstanding book containing a clear and readable introduction, concise notes on the text and strong literary appreciation.

A History of the Crusades

A History of the Crusades PDF Author: Steven Runciman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521347709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
Sir Steven Runciman explores the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem.

The Odyssey

The Odyssey PDF Author: Homer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520966872
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536

Book Description
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience The Odyssey in all its glory. Green’s version, with its lyrical mastery and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to enjoy Homer’s epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral tradition.

Homer

Homer PDF Author: Barbara Graziosi
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1849667500
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them as belonging to a much wider history of the divine cosmos, whose structures and themes are reflected in the resonant patterns of Homer's traditional language and narrative techniques. Part II illustrates this claim by looking at some central aspects of the Homeric poems: the gods and fate, gender and society, death, fame and poetry. Each section shows how the patterns and preoccupations of Homeric storytelling reflect a historical vision that encompasses the making of the universe, from its beginnings when Heaven mated with Earth, to the present day.
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