The Making of the Iliad

A commentary on the making of the Iliad, distinguishing the different stages of the poet's workings, illuminating his aims and methods, and identifying techniques and motifs derived from ancestral Indo-European tradition or imported from the Near East.

A commentary on the making of the Iliad, distinguishing the different stages of the poet's workings, illuminating his aims and methods, and identifying techniques and motifs derived from ancestral Indo-European tradition or imported from the Near East.

There are many important obervations here ... Nobody in the world knows more Greek than West, and his output over the past fifty years has been truly prodigious, his contributions in many branches of Greek letters fundamental.

Autorentext
M. L. West is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford

Zusammenfassung
The Making of the Iliad is intended for readers who have some knowledge of Greek and of Homer. After introductory chapters on the poet of the Iliad's date and homeland, the poetic traditions known to him, the way in which his work developed, and its early reception, Martin West provides a running commentary on the epic, distinguishing the different stages of the poet's workings, illuminating his aims and methods, and identifying techniques and motifs derived from ancestral Indo-European tradition or imported from the Near East.

Inhalt
I. Disquisition: The Making of the Iliad; 1: Aims and Assumptions; 2: The Poet: When and Where?; 3: Songs Known and Heard; 4: Troy and Achilles; 5: The Growth of the Poem; 6: Early Reception and Transmission; II. Analytical Commentary: The Made Iliad

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