Simon Pulleyn

Homer, Odyssey I

Edited with an Introduction, Translation, Commentary, and Glossary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering the first full-length commentary on Odyssey I in English since the 1980s, this new edition with facing translation aims to offer students an accessible yet authoritative introduction to the history and style of Homeric epic alongside detailed philological and linguistic analysis that will be of equal use to advanced scholars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198788805
• ISBN-10: 0198788800
• Artikelnr.: 54024454

Autorenporträt

Simon Pulleyn read Classics at Oxford in the 1980s and stayed on to write his doctoral thesis on prayer in Ancient Greek religion. He taught Latin and Greek at Oxford for most of the 1990s, at the end of which he trained as a lawyer. After a longish spell as a solicitor in the City of London, he taught law for a few years before deciding to give himself over to full-time research and writing. He has published numerous articles and reviews in learned journals, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Frontmatter
Abbreviations
Maps
Introduction
The Appeal of the Odyssey
Structure
Style
The World of the Odyssey
Origins
Transmission
Metre
Dialect and Grammar
Text and Translation
Commentary
Endmatter
Bibliography
Vocabulary
Glossary of Technical Terms
General Index
Index of Greek Words