The Iliad

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

I. Texts and Commentaries

Homeri Opera. Ed. by D. B. Monro and T. W. Allen. Vols. I and II. Oxford Classical Texts. London, 1920.

The Iliad. Ed. with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes and appendixes by Walter Leaf. 2d ed., 2 vols. London, 1902.

The Iliad of Homer. Ed. with introduction and commentary by M. M. Willcock. 2 vols. London, 1978-84.

Iliad: Book XXIV. Ed. by C. W. MacLeod. Cambridge, England, 1982.

The Iliad: A Commentary. General Ed., G. S. Kirk. Vol. I: Books 1-4, Kirk. Cambridge, England, 1985. Vol. II: Books 5-8, Kirk, 1990. Vol. III: Books 9-12, J. B. Hainsworth, 1993; Vol. IV: Books 13-16, Richard Janko, 1992; Vol. V: Books 17-20, Mark W. Edwards, 1991; Vol. VI: Books 21-24, Nicholas Richardson, 1993.

Iliad: Book IX: Ed. by Jasper Griffin. Cambridge, England, 1995.

II. Critical Works

Atchity. Kenneth J. Homer’s Iliad: The Shield of Memory. Carbondale, 1978.

Critical Essays on Homer. Boston, 1987.

Adkins, A. W. H. Merit and Responsibility: A Study in Greek Values. Oxford, 1960.

Arnold, Matthew. “On Translating Homer.” In On the Classical Tradition, ed. R. H. Super. Ann Arbor and London, 1960.

Austin, Norman. Archery at the Dark of the Moon: Poetic Problems in Homer’s Odyssey. Berkeley Los Angeles and London, 1975.

Bakker, Egbert, and Ahuvia Kahane, eds. Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text. Cambridge, Mass., 2000.

Bassett, S. E. The Poetry of Homer. Berkeley, 1938.

Beissinger, Margaret, Jane Tyius, and Susanne Wofford, eds. Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community. Berkeley, 1999.

Bespaloff, Rachel. On the Iliad. Trans. Mary McCarthy. New York, 1947.

Beye, Charles R. The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Epic Tradition. New York and London, 1966.

Bowra, Sir Maurice. Tradition and Design in the Iliad. London, 1930.

Bremer, J. M., I. J. F. de Jong, and J. Kalff, eds. Homer: Beyond Oral Poetry: Recent Trends in Homeric Interpretation. Amsterdam, 1987.

Camps, W A. An Introduction to Homer. Oxford, 1980.

Carter, Jane B., and Sarah P. Morris, eds. The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule. Austin, 1995.

Chadwick, John. The Mycenaean World. London and New York, 1976.

Clarke, Howard. Homer’s Readers: A Historical Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Newark, Delaware, 1981.

Crotty Kevin. The Poetics of Supplication: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Ithaca and London, 1994.

Edwards, Mark W Homer: Poet of the Iliad. Baltimore and London, 1987.

Fenik, Bernard. Typical Battle Scenes in the Iliad: Studies in the Narrative Techniques of Homeric Battle Description. Wiesbaden, 1968.

Ferrucci, Franco. The Poetics of Disguise: The Autobiography of the Work in Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare. Trans. A. Dunnigan. Ithaca, 1980.

Finley, Sir Moses. The World of Odysseus. 2d rev. ed. Harmondsworth, 1979.

Finnegan, Ruth. Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance, and Social Context. Cambridge, England, 1977.

Ford, Andrew. Homer: The Poetry of the Past. Ithaca and London, 1992.

Greene, Thomas M. The Descent from Heaven: A Study in Epic Continuity. Chapter 3, “The Iliad.” New Haven, 1963.

Griffin, Jasper. Homer. Oxford, 1980.

Homer on Life and Death. Oxford, 1980.

Guthrie, W K. C. The Greeks and Their Gods. London, 1949; repr. Boston, 1955.

Hainsworth, J. B. The Flexibility of the Homeric Formula. Oxford, 1968.

Hogan, James C. A Guide to the Iliad: Based on the Translation by Robert Fitzgerald. New York, 1979.

Jenkyns, Richard. Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil. Bristol Classical World series. London, 1992.

King, Katherine Callen. Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1987.

Kirk, G. S. The Songs of Homer. Cambridge, England, 1962.

Lamberton, Robert. Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1986.

—————————, and J. J. Keaney, eds. Homer’s Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic’s Earliest Exegetes. Princeton, 1992.

Lattimore, Deborah Nourse. Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1987.

Lloyd-Jones, Sir Hugh. The Justice of Zeus. 2d ed. Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 41. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1983.

Lord, Albert. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, Mass., 1960.

Martin, Richard. The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad. Ithaca, 1989.

McAuslan, Ian, and Peter Walcot, eds. Homer. Oxford and New York, 1998.

Morris, Ian, and Barry Powell, eds. A New Companion to Homer. Leiden and New York, 1997.

Moulton, Carroll. Similes in the Homeric Poems. Göttingen, 1977.

Mueller, Martin. The Iliad. Unwin Critical Library, ed. Claude Rawson. London, 1984.

Myrsiades, Kostas, ed. Approaches to Teaching Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. New York, 1987.

Nagler, Michael. Spontaneity and Tradition: A Study in the Oral Art of Homer. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1974.

Nagy, Gregory. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry. Baltimore and London, 1979.

Nilsson, M. P. Homer and Mycenae. London, 1933.

Otto, Walter F. The Homeric Gods. Trans. Moses Hadas. New York and London, 1954.

Page, Sir Denys. History and the Homeric Iliad. Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 31. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1959.

Parry, Adam M. The Language of Achilles and Other Papers. Foreword by Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Oxford, 1989.

Parry, Milman. The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Ed. Adam Parry. Oxford, 1971.

Rabel, Robert J. Plot and Point of View in the Iliad. Ann Arbor, 1997.

Redfield, J. M. Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector. Chicago and London, 1975.

Rubino, Carl A., and Cynthia W Shelmerdine, eds. Approaches to Homer. Austin, 1983.

Schein, Seth L. The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer’s Iliad. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1984.

Scott, John A. The Unity of Homer. Berkeley, 1921.

Scully, Stephen, Homer and the Sacred City. Ithaca and London, 1990.

Segal, Charles. The Theme of the Mutilation of the Corpse in the Iliad. Mnemosyne, supp. vol. 17. Leiden, 1971.

Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. New York, Toronto, 1994.

Shive, David M. Naming Achilles. New York, 1987.

Silk, M. S. Homer: The Iliad. Cambridge, England, 1987.

Slatkin, Laura M. The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad. Berkeleγ, Los Angeles and London, 1991.

Stanley Keith. The Shield of Homer: Narrative Structure in the Iliad. Princeton, 1993.

Steiner, George, and Fagles, Robert, eds. Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views, ed. Maynard Mack. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962.

, ed., with Aminadov Dykman. Homer in English. Penguin Poets in Translation, ed. Christopher Ricks. Harmondsworth, 1996.

Suzuki, Mihoko. Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic. Chapter 1, “The Iliad.” Ithaca and London, 1989.

Taplin, Oliver. Homeric Soundings: The Shaping of the Iliad. New York and London, 1992.

Thornton, Agathe. Homer’s Iliad, Its Composition and the Motif of Supplication. Göttingen, 1984.

Vermeule, Emily T. Greece in the Bronze Age. Chicago and London, 1964.

—————————. Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry. Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 46. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1979.

Vivante, Paolo. Homer. Hermes Books, ed. John Herington. New Haven and London, 1985.

—————————. The Iliad: Action as Poetry. Twayne’s Masterwork Studies. Boston, 1990.

Wace, Alan J. B., and Stubbings, Frank. A Companion to Homer. London, 1962.

Wade-Gery, H. T. The Poet of the Iliad. Cambridge, England, 1952.

Weil, Simone. The Iliad or The Poem of Force. Trans. Mary McCarthy. Politics Pamphlet No. 1. New York, n.d.; rep. Wallingford, Pa., n.d.

Whitman, Cedric H. Homer and the Heroic Tradition. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1958.

Willcock, Malcolm M. A Companion to the Iliad: Based on the Translation by Rich mond Lattimore. Chicago and London, 1976.

Wofford, Susanne L. The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic. Chapter 1, “The Politics of the Simile in the Iliad.” Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1992.

Wood, Robert. An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer. London, 1769; rep. Philadelphia, 1976.

Wright, John. Essays on the Iliad: Selected Modern Criticism. Bloomington and London, 1978.