THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE FOR INTERPOLATION IN HOMER

Bolling, George Melville

ISBN 10: 0198142765 / ISBN 13: 9780198142768

Published by Oxford Clarendon Press, 1968

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Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Rear endpaper excised. ; In the quest for the original Homeric text, Bolling's strategy is to begin, not with an 'Ur-text' as some earlier scholars had attempted, but with the poems as they appear at the beginning of our tradition, and to 'remove the accretions stratum by stratum, as in the excavation of a buried temple'. He attempts to reconstruct the earlier texts of the Iliad and Odyssey by not only identifying and eliminating interpolations, but by understanding the traditions of the earlier interpolators and editors and thus establishing a standard for future work. ; 259 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE FOR INTERPOLATION IN HOMER
• Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198142765
• ISBN 13: 9780198142768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Greek Literature
  • Classical Studies

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Synopsis

A painstaking reconstruction of the earliest texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey based on the identification and elimination of interpolations and an understanding of the traditions of early interpolators and editors.