Oxford Readings in Homer's Iliad [Paperback]

This anthology makes accessible to the reader sixteen of the most important studies of Homer and theIliadto appear in the last forty years. The essays, by leading Homeric scholars from Great Britain, the United States, and Europe, deal not only with the aesthetics and artistry of theIliadas a poetic artefact, but with its historical context, its cultural background, and its ethical and political framework.

1. The Use and Abuse of Homer,Ian Morris
2. The Making of Homer,Walter Burkert
3. From theIliadto theOdyssey,R. B. Rutherford
4. Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions?,Richard Gaskin
5. Divine and Human Causation in Homeric Epic,Albin Lesky
6. Affronts and Quarrels in theIliad,Douglas L. Cairns
7.Eubouliain theIliad,Malcolm Schofield
8. Tragic Form and Feeling in theIliad,R. B. Rutherford
9. Homer on Poetry and the Poetry of Homer,C. W. Macleod
10. A 'Beautiful Death' and the Disfigured Corpse,Jean-Pierre Vernant
11. The Shield of Achilles within theIliad,Oliver Taplin
12. The Epic Cycle and the Uniqueness of Homer,Jasper Griffin
13. Past and Future in theIliad,Wolfgang Kullmann
14. The Wrath of Thetis,Laura M. Slatkin
15. Mythological Paradigms in theIliad,M. M. Willcock
16. The Proem of theIliad: Homer's Art,James Redfield
17.IliadI. 366-92: A Mirror Story,Irene J. F. de Jong