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Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary
This edition, commentary, and accompanying essays focus on the tenth book of the Iliad, which has been doubted, ignored, and even scorned. Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott use approaches based on oral traditional poetics to illuminate many of the interpretive questions that strictly literary approaches find unsolvable. The introductory essays explain their textual and interpretive approaches and explicate the ambush theme within the whole Greek epic tradition. The critical texts (presented as a sequence of witnesses, including the tenth-century Venetus A manuscript and select papyri) highlight the individual witnesses and the variations they offer. The commentary demonstrates how the unconventional Iliad 10 shares in the oral traditional nature of the whole epic, even though its poetics are specific to its nocturnal ambush plot.
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Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary
This edition, commentary, and accompanying essays focus on the tenth book of the Iliad, which has been doubted, ignored, and even scorned. Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott use approaches based on oral traditional poetics to illuminate many of the interpretive questions that strictly literary approaches find unsolvable. The introductory essays explain their textual and interpretive approaches and explicate the ambush theme within the whole Greek epic tradition. The critical texts (presented as a sequence of witnesses, including the tenth-century Venetus A manuscript and select papyri) highlight the individual witnesses and the variations they offer. The commentary demonstrates how the unconventional Iliad 10 shares in the oral traditional nature of the whole epic, even though its poetics are specific to its nocturnal ambush plot.
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<i>Iliad</i> 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary

Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary

<i>Iliad</i> 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary

Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary

Overview

This edition, commentary, and accompanying essays focus on the tenth book of the Iliad, which has been doubted, ignored, and even scorned. Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott use approaches based on oral traditional poetics to illuminate many of the interpretive questions that strictly literary approaches find unsolvable. The introductory essays explain their textual and interpretive approaches and explicate the ambush theme within the whole Greek epic tradition. The critical texts (presented as a sequence of witnesses, including the tenth-century Venetus A manuscript and select papyri) highlight the individual witnesses and the variations they offer. The commentary demonstrates how the unconventional Iliad 10 shares in the oral traditional nature of the whole epic, even though its poetics are specific to its nocturnal ambush plot.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674035591
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2010
Series: Hellenic Studies Series , #39
Pages: 350
Sales rank: 898,698
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Casey Dué is Professor and Director of Classical Studies at the University of Houston.

Mary Ebbott is Associate Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross.
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