Alfred Heubeck / Stephanie West / J. B. Hainsworth (eds.)

A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey

Volume I: Introduction and Books I-VIII
Herausgeber: Hainsworth, J. B.; West, Stephanie; Heubeck, Alfred

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first instalment of a three-volume commentary in English, compiled by an international team of scholars and first published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In this volume the commentary by West (Books I-IV) and Hainsworth (Books V-VIII) is preceded by an introduction which discusses previous research on the Odyssey, the nature of the poem and its relation to the Iliad, the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text. Book VI is a regular GCSE set text.

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This is the first installment of a three-volume revision in English of a commentary compiled by an international team of scholars and first published in Italian under the auspices of Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In this volume the commentary by West and Hainsworth is preceded by an introduction which discusses previous research on the 'Odyssey', the nature of the poem, and its relation to the 'Iliad', the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9780198147473
• ISBN-10: 0198147473
• Artikelnr.: 22022679

Autorenporträt

Heubeck died in 1987