Homer: Iliad Book 22 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Table of contents Introduction; Text; Commentary. Review quote 'De Jong's emphases are outlined in the preface.
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She says that she will focus on 'Homer's language In my own experience, she accomplishes a great deal more, bringing out meanings and connections that cast book 22 in an entirely fresh light and reveal this book's close connections to the Iliad as a whole. After reading this commentary, I felt I had experienced a thorough review and renewal of my Iliadic self.
It offers a teaching tool useful at the undergraduate and early graduate levels of study, since it provides not only detailed guidance for reading book 22, but also an introduction to the Iliadas a whole. Moreover, the interpretive insights offered throughout the volume will be useful to readers and scholars at any level.
About Homer Irene J. She has published extensively on Homer, Herodotus and Euripides and is editing a multi-volume history of ancient Greek narrative.
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One should immediately confirm that accessibility is never sacrificed to this aim, just as the requisite morphological and grammatical explanations remain central. Passages are frequently introduced with didactic translations. Explications of the meaning of particular words, as far as we can know them, are frequent and extremely interesting, allowing for a more nuanced translation of passages where one might have become accustomed to allowing a more approximate gloss.
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Generous grammatical, syntactical, and morphological explanations, with copious contextualizing cross-references, therefore found a collection of very many apt and helpful literary interpretations that are born of a deep familiarity with the text and its language. The imperative standing alone is abrupt and dismissive. In this context, we find an aorist Overall, the commentary focuses on meaning.
Literary analysis never dominates this focus, and the language of literary analysis, which is used sparingly, is made to serve the ends of understanding. In general, de Jong uses familiar, rather than technical, words to explain the structure of the narrative. An example ad loc.
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics: Homer: Iliad Book 22
Shorter or more local structures are given equally accessible descriptions: General rules are succinctly described, e. No one should assume that the thought is simple because the words are well known. On the contrary, the dense weave of Homeric artistic decisions with the moral, philosophical, and scientific issues that underlie the poem is given as much attention as possible.
After reading this commentary, I felt I had experienced a thorough review and renewal of my Iliadic self. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge University Press, Reviewed by Edith Foster, Ashland University edithmfoster gmail.