THE ILIAD: A COMMENTARY; Volume III: Books 9-12

Some pencilling. Creasing to wraps.; This is the third volume in the major six-volume Commentary on Homer?s Iliad prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G. S. Kirk. It opens with two introductory chapters: the first on Homeric diction (on which emphasis is maintained throughout the Commentary) ; the second on the contributions that comparative studies have made to seeing the Homeric epics in sharper perspective. In the commentary Dr Hainsworth confronts in an intentionally even-handed manner the serious problems posed by the ninth, tenth and twelfth books of The Iliad, seeking by means of a succinct discussion and a brief bibliography of recent contributions to furnish the user with a point of entry into the often voluminous scholarship devoted to these questions. The Greek text is not included.; The Iliad: a Commentary; 3; 0.89 x 8.98 x 6 Inches; 402 pages.