Achilles Unbound

Multiformity and Tradition in the Homeric Epics

Casey Dué

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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

Center for Hellenic Studies > Hellenic Studies Series

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LITERARY CRITICISM: Ancient & Classical

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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