Introduction; A note on the text and apparatus criticus; ILIAD 1 ((ΙΛΙΑΔΟΣ Α); Commentary; Bibliography; Indexes.
An up-to-date commentary aimed at undergraduates and graduate students, focusing on language, meter, style, and literary interpretation.
Seth Schein is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of six books, three of which are on Homer: The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad (1984), Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays (1996) [edited], and Homeric Epic and its Reception: Interpretive Essays (2016). He has also edited Sophocles' Philoctetes for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.
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