Product Description: The Prolegomena provide an introduction to a better understanding of Homer's text itself and the manner of commentary on it. Contents: On the history of commentaries on the Iliad (Latacz) - History of the text (West) - Formulaic language and oral tradition (Latacz) - Grammar (Wachter) - Metre (Nünlist) - Actors (Graf/Stoevesandt) - Plot and chronological structure with diagrams (Latacz) - narrative technique (de Jong/Nünlist) - Index of Mycenean words in the Iliad, with brief explanations (Wachter)...read more

Product Description: This commentary on the 6th book of the Iliad concentrates on the interpretation of two episodes which have received a great deal of scholarly attention: the encounter between Diomedes and Glaukos, which surprisingly ends with an exchange of weapons and not a duel, and the series of scenes ´;Hector in Troy´, which reveal the hero´s conflicting roles as defender of the city and father of his family...read more

Product Description: This is the first in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees, time, focalization, characterization, description, speech, and plot...read more