The Iliad [antikvár]

Preface In assessing the Iliad as a literary work for a mixed, but largely non-specialist, pubUc, I have had occasion to discuss various issues rather differently from the way that writers on Homer usually discuss them. In the process, I have said some new things about the Iliad, which I hope will give the book an interest for the professional Homerist, along with others. At the same time, I have drawn freely on the ideas and researches of many earlier writers: among recent studies, I would single out the books by Mueller, Mason, Vivante and Griffin listed on pp. 114f. I have also profited from comments on the work in progress by Oliver TapUn, Malcolm Willcock, William Wyatt, Jasper Griffin, Peter Stern and Terence Moore: it is a pleasure to acknowledge these debts. Note Simple page references (as pp. 24-5) refer to pages of this book. Where modern discussions of Homer or the epic are referred to in the text by an author's name (with or without a date), full bibliographical details will be found in the guide to further reading. Roman numerals followed by arable refer to the Iliad, by book and line: so XV 20 means Iliad, book XV, hne 20. References to other ancient works are in general self-explanatory, but fr. stands for 'fragment' and 'West' after a fragment number refers to the edition of the Greek iambic and elegiac poets by M. L. West {Iambi et Elegi Graeci, Oxford, 1971-2). All translations of Homer (and other authors) are mine, unless otherwise indicated.