HELLENIC STUDIES SERIES
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Hellenic Studies Series 81

Achilles Unbound

Multiformity and Tradition in the Homeric Epics

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$27.50 • £23.95 • €25.95

ISBN 9780674987364

Publication Date: 04/02/2019

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228 pages

6 x 9 inches

8 color illustrations

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  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. “Winged Words”: How We Came to Have Our Iliad
  • 2. Sunt Aliquid Manes: Ancient Quotations of Homer
  • 3. “And Then an Amazon Came”: Homeric Papyri
  • 4. The Lost Verses of the Iliad: Medieval Manuscripts and the Poetics of a Multiform Epic Tradition
  • 5. Conclusion: “In Appearance Like a God”: Textual Criticism and the Quest for the One True Homer
  • Bibliography
  • Subject Index
  • Index Locorum

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