Homer Beside Himself: Para-Narratives in the Iliad

By Maureen Alden

In this book Dr Alden offers advice on how to read the Iliad through the relationship of major paradigms to the events of the main narrative. The first section offers the first full-length study in English of the paradigmatic functions of secondary narratives and minor-key episodes in the Iliad. None of these are irrelevant or merely ornamental: rather each is carefully selected and altered if necessary, to reflect on significant episodes of the main narrative and act as guides to its interpretation. The second section offers a general reading of the Iliad arising out of Phoenix's advice to Achilles in Book 9.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019815285X
• ISBN13: 9780198152859
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"