Homers Ilias, Prolegomena

The Prolegomena provide an introduction to a better understanding of Homer s text itself and the manner of commentary on it. Contents: On the history of commentaries on the Iliad (Latacz) History of the text (West) Formulaic language and oral tradition (Latacz) Grammar (Wachter) Metre (Nunlist) Actors (Graf/Stoevesandt) Plot and chronological structure with diagrams (Latacz) narrative technique (de Jong/Nunlist) Index of Mycenaean words in the Iliad, with brief explanations (Wachter). The third edition has been fully re-edited and contains an up-to-date bibliography."