Reading Homer: Iliad Books 16 and 18

Description

Reading Homer presents two highlights of the Iliad: Book 16, where Patroclus fights and dies, and Book 18, where Achilles grieves for him and is awarded new armour before he returns to battle. It enables students who have been learning Greek for perhaps a year to approach Homer for the first time, and to have the satisfaction of reading two whole books in the original language. Full and detailed help is given with vocabulary, accidence and syntax. Homeric forms are introduced and set alongside Attic ones, enabling students to consolidate their existing knowledge at the same time as extending it. The Introduction and notes enable students to see these two books in the context of the whole epic, and the epic itself in the context of early Greek society. They also encourage students to consider why the Greeks themselves regarded Homer as the master poet.

STEPHEN ANDERSON is a Lecturer in Classics at New College Oxford, having formerly been Head of Classics at Winchester College. He is the co-author of Greek Unseen Translation (2005) and Writing Greek (2010). KEITH MACLENNAN was Head of Classics at Rugby School. He published editions of Virgil's Aeneid Books 1, 4, 6 and 8 (2003-2010), and co-authored another of Plautus' Aulularia (2016). NAOKO YAMAGATA is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University. She is the author of Homeric Morality (1994). JOHN TAYLOR, one of the Series Editors for Reading Greek, is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester, having formerly been Head of Classics at Tonbridge School. He is the author of numerous textbooks aimed at high-school students studying Greek and Latin and also contributed the volumes New Testament Greek: A Reader (2001) and A Greek Anthology (2002) to the Reading Greek series.