Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's Iliad [Weekly readings] 2017-18
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Compulsory items for purchase: 2 items
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The Iliad of Homer - 2011
Book Essential
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book Essential
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WEEK 1: Introduction and Iliad book 1 6 items
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First Hour: Orientation and Introductory Lecture: 1 item
'Fame, Tradition and Narrative: key themes and advice for studying the Iliad.'
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Second Hour: Group Work 5 items
Read Iliad book 1 and the secondary reading for your group and make notes on the following questions:
Achilles group: is Agamemnon wholly or solely in the wrong in this book? (refer to specific evidence from the text)Briseis group: How does the narrator establish his authority to tell this tale in book 1? What aspects of its style and presentation suggest that this poem stems from an oral tradition and is designed for live performance? (refer to specific examples).
Chryses group: What is the relationship between the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles and the subsequent scene on Olympus? What does this divine scene add?
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Secondary Reading: 4 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 11-43, 45-64 (all groups)
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Chapter (Achilles group)
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The mortal hero: an introduction to Homer's Iliad - 1984
Book Chapter 1 (Briseis group)
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Chapter Esp. pp. 74-86 (Chryses group) [Available in the library and as an e-book.]
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WEEK 2: Iliad book 2 / the use of similes 26 items
First Hour: Group Work
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Achilles group 3 itemsRead 2.1-393. How are we to view Agamemnon’s ‘trial’ of the men here? Does it make sense? What do we learn of Agamemnon’s and Odysseus’ character and roles?
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Secondary Reading: 3 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 65-74.
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Agamemnon’s role in the Iliad -
Chapter
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"The City-Sacker Odysseus" in Iliad 2 and 10 - 1990
Article Just read pp. 37-45. (Article contains Greek but line numbers match Lattimore exactly.)
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Briseis group: 3 itemsRead 2.207-393. Why do you think Thersites gets to be in the Iliad? What does this scene tell us about the world of the Greek heroes and the role of speech-making in the poem?
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Secondary Reading: 3 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 65-74
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The language of heroes: speech and performance in the Iliad - 1989
Book Chapter 3
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Thersites in the 'Iliad' - 1988
Article
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Chryses group: 5 itemsRead 2.484-877 and note maps in Lattimore, pp. 69-72. What can the ‘Catalogue of Ships’ and ‘catalogue of Trojan contingents’ tell us about how the Iliad was composed and the poem’s narrative technique. What does the catalogue of ships – and the way in which it is introduced - do for the narrator’s status and does it ‘fit’ with the rest of the poem?
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Secondary Reading: 5 items
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Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 65-67
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The Iliad: a commentary, Vol. 1: Books 1-4 - 1985
Book pp. 168-189 [Very detailed and not a priority for the class]
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Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Second Hour: Presentations and Discussion: the use of similes
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Presentation 1: 6 itemsLook at the unique series of similes at 2.455-83. Discuss their coherence and possible functions.
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Secondary Reading: 6 items
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Similes and other likenesses -
Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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The Iliad: a commentary, Vol. 5: Books 17-20 - , 1991
Book pp. 24-91
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Similes -
Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 38-9
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Similes in the Homeric poems - 1977
Book
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Similes in the Iliad - 1974
Article
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Presentation 2: 7 itemsLook at the following similes in their context and discuss their impact: 8.555-561; 11.556-63; 20.495-7, 18.600-1, 3.33-5, 16.6-10. What sorts of poetic and narrative function do the poem’s similes have?
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Secondary Reading: 7 items
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Similes and other likenesses -
Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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The Iliad: a commentary, Vol. 5: Books 17-20 - , 1991
Book pp. 24-91
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Similes -
Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 38-9
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Homer on life and death - 1980
Book [Use index]
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Similes in the Iliad - 1974
Article
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Character, narrator, and simile in the Iliad - 2011
Book [Use index]
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WEEK 3: Iliad 3-7 / gender and heroism, Greeks and Trojans 23 items
First Hour: Group Work
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Achilles group 3 itemsRead all of Book 3. How far are the Trojan characters in this book represented negatively? How is Helen represented and used in this book?
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Secondary Reading: 3 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 83-93, 325-7
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Homer: poet of the Iliad - 1987
Book pp 188-97
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Briseis group: 5 itemsRead Books 4-5. What is the tone and function of Agamemnon’s ‘review’ of the men at 4.220-421? What narrative and thematic functions are served by Diomedes’ aristeia in book 5 and the entry of Hector into the battle?
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Secondary Reading: 5 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 94-118.
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The language of heroes: speech and performance in the Iliad - 1989
Book Chapter 2
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Diomedes -
Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Dione -
Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Chryses group: 3 itemsFocus on the meeting of Glaucus and Diomedes at 6.119-236 and the duel between Hector and Ajax at 7.1-321 What do these episodes tell us about heroic ‘values’ and how enemies interact in the Iliad?
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Secondary Reading 3 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 94-118
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Iliad, book VI - , 2010
Book pp. 34-40
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The Wits of Glaucus - 1992
Article
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Second Hour: Presentations and Discussion: Book 6 – Hector and the women of Troy.
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Presentation 1: 5 itemsWhat do we learn about Hector and his priorities through his encounter with Helen, Hecabe and Andromache in Book 6?
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Secondary Reading 5 items
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The Divided World of Iliad VI - 1981
Article
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Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Iliad, book VI - , 2010
Book pp. 40-47
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 119-129
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Like a Woman: Hector and the Boundaries of Masculinity - 2001
Article
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Presentation 2: 5 itemsWhat is Andromache’s role in Book 6 and how might an original archaic or classical audience have viewed her words and actions?
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Secondary Reading 5 items
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Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Iliad, book VI - , 2010
Book pp. 40-56
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 119-129
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The mortal hero: an introduction to Homer's Iliad - 1984
Book Chapter 6
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WEEK 4 Iliad 8-12 / The Embassy to Achilles and the Character of Achilles 24 items
First Hour: Group Work
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Achilles group 3 itemsRead Book 10 (the so-called Doloneia). It has been argued that this book was a later addition to the Iliad and is surplus to requirements. Do you agree with this? Jones calls the opening ‘dull’ and the attack on Rhesus ‘crude and unheroic’: is this fair?
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Secondary Reading: 3 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp.164-169
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Iliad 10 and the poetics of ambush: a multitext edition with essays and commentary - , 2010
Book Esp. Chapter 1. [An external online edition is available via the 'online resource' link. ]
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Briseis group: 4 itemsRead Book 11, focusing on lines 598-848. What is the significance of these scenes for the rest of the poem? What is the paradigmatic force of Nestor’s big speech to Patroclus?
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Secondary Reading: 4 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 170-183
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Nestor the Good Counsellor - 2005
Article
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Homeric soundings: the shaping of the Iliad - 1992
Book pp. 155-177
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The Paradigmatic Nature of Nestor's Speech in Iliad 11 - 1983
Article
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Chryses group: 4 itemsRead Book 12. What is the significance of lines 1-35 on the Greeks’ wall? How does the wall develop the battle narrative? What is the significance of the exchange between Hector and Polydamas (175-250) and between Glaucus and Sarpedon (251-330)?
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Secondary Reading: 4 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 184-191
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Homer's Trojan theater: space, vision, and memory in the Iliad - 2011
Book pp. 56-68 [ Available in the library and as an e-book]
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The poet's voice: essays on poetics and Greek literature - 1991
Book Chapter 2
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Chapter [Available in the library and as an e-book.]
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Second Hour: Presentations and Discussion: The Embassy to Achilles and the Character of Achilles
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Presentation 1: 6 itemsHow does the embassy episode in Book 9 deepen the poem’s portrayal of Achilles? Does he reject an ‘heroic code’?
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 147-163
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Homeric Words and Speakers - 1986
Article
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The language of heroes: speech and performance in the Iliad - 1989
Book Chapter 5. [An external online edition is available via the 'online resource' link]
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The Language of Achilles - 1973
Article [You can match the Greek to Lattimore via line numbers]
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The mortal hero: an introduction to Homer's Iliad - 1984
Book Chapter 4
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Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad - 2002
Book Chapter 2
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Presentation 2: What is the role of Phoenix in book 9? 5 items
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Secondary Reading: 5 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 147-163
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Homer beside himself: para-narratives in the Iliad - 2001
Book pp.222-242
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Iliad, Book nine - , 1995
Book
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Achilles' Teachers: Chiron and Phoenix in the 'Iliad' - 1997
Article
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Mythological Paradeigma in the Iliad - 1964
Article
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WEEK 5: Books 13-17 / The ‘Homeric Question’/ repetition and orality 28 items
First Hour: Group Work
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Achilles group 3 itemsRead books 13-15. Here we have an ebb and flow of fighting between Trojans and Greeks, culminating in the Trojans’ ascendancy as they press close to the Greeks’ ships. How does ‘Homer’ shape the narrative here? What are the most vivid and entertaining episodes or descriptions in these books and what function to they serve?
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Secondary Reading: 3 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 192-221
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Homer's Trojan theater: space, vision, and memory in the Iliad - 2011
Book pp. 68-86 [Available in the library and as an e-book]
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The Iliad: a commentary, Vol. 4: Books 13-16 - , 1992
Book [e.g. pp. 168–207 on 14.153-353]
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Briseis group: 4 itemsRead books 16-17. What aspects of these books create a sense of pathos and tragedy concerning the death of Patroclus? Does it make sense to use the term ‘tragedy’ in the context of Homeric epic
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Secondary Reading: 4 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 222-247
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Tragic form and feeling in the Iliad -
Chapter Ch.8
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Tragic Form and Feeling in the Iliad - 1982
Article [Original with Greek not translated version of this article.]
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Chryses group: 2 itemsRead book 16 and list one example of each type of narrative feature which you think might relate to the epic’s ‘oral-derived’ status. Which of these features enhance the the power of the narrative? 16.419-683: discuss the significance of the death of Sarpedon and its handling by Homer
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Secondary Reading: 2 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 11-23, 32-43, 222-237
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The mortal hero: an introduction to Homer's Iliad - 1984
Book Esp. chapter 2
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Second Hour: Presentations and Discussion: The Homeric Question / Repetition, tradition and Orality
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Presentation 1: 11 itemsWhat is the ‘Homeric Question’? What do we do with the arguments for ‘oral composition’ advanced in various ways over the years?
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Secondary Reading: 11 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp.11-23, 32-43.
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Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Analysts -
Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Speeches -
Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Doloneia -
Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Article Available in the library and as an e-book.
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The Homeric Poems as Oral Dictated Texts - 1998
Article
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Homeric questions - 1996
Book
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Presentation 2: 6 itemsDo the ‘repetitive’, ’traditional’ and ‘oral-derived’ features of Homeric poetry require us to take a different approach to ‘literary criticism’ to Homer than that which we would take with an epic poem which is not ‘oral-derived’ (e.g. Apollonius’ Aronautica or Virgil’s Aeneid)?
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Secondary Reading: 6 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp.11-23, 32-43
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Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Formulas, Metres and Type Scenes’ -
Chapter
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Oral tradition and its implications -
Chapter
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The Iliad: an unpredictable classic -
Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Modern Theoretical Approaches to Homer -
Chapter
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WEEK 6: Books 18-22 / The Shield of Achilles 22 items
First Hour: Group Work
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Achilles group 3 itemsRead Book 18. 1-368 and Book 19. Critics have discussed these parts of the Iliad in terms of ‘turning points’ for the narrative. What sorts of turning points are there? What is the role of Thetis in Book 18?
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Secondary Reading: 3 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 248-258 and 262-270
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Nature and culture in the Iliad: the tragedy of Hector - 1994
Book [Use index]
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The Wrath of Thetis - 1986
Article [Also in D. Cairns, Oxford Readings in Homer’s Iliad (Oxford 2001)]
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Briseis group: 3 itemsRead Books 20 and 21. In what ways, and how far, do these books establish Achilles’ credentials as a fighter and a warrior bent on revenge? Why do Aeneas and Achilles spend so long talking (or ‘flyting’) before fighting in book 20?
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Secondary Reading: 3 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 271-286
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Homer on life and death - 1980
Book [Use index]
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Chryses group: 3 itemsChryses: Read Book 22. What poetic, narrative and thematic features of the actual duel between Hector and Achilles make it so effective?
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Secondary Reading: 3 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 287-297
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Homeric Pathos and Objectivity - 1976
Article
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Iliad: Book XXII - , 2012
Book Introduction and use index
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Second Hour: Presentations and Discussion: The Shield of Achilles / Book 22
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Presentation 1: 5 itemsRead Book 18, but focus on lines 468-617. What is the significance of the scenes depicted on the shield of Achilles?
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Secondary Reading: 5 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 248-261
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Homer's Trojan theater: space, vision, and memory in the Iliad - 2011
Book pp. 1-9
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Reading the Shield of Achilles: Terror, Anger, Delight - 2003
Article
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The Shield of Achilles within the 'Iliad' - 1980
Article [Reprinted in D. Cairns (2001) Oxford Readings]
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The shield of Homer: narrative structure in the Iliad - 1993
Book [use index: not actually all about the shield]
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Presentation 2: 6 itemsIn what ways does Book 22 engage an audience’s sympathy for Hector and the Trojans?
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 287-297
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Homer on life and death - 1980
Book [Use index]
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Iliad: Book XXII - , 2012
Book [Introduction and use index]
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Nature and culture in the Iliad: the tragedy of Hector - 1994
Book [Use index]
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The mortal hero: an introduction to Homer's Iliad - 1984
Book [Use index]
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Pity and pathos in Homer - 1979
Article
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WEEK 7: Books 23-24 / Pathos, supplication and Tragedy 23 items
First Hour: Group Work
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Achilles group: 3 itemsRead Book 23.1-257. How does this focus on Achilles, Patroclus’ ghost and threats to Hector’s body have a wider significance for the poem as a whole?
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Secondary Reading: 3 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 298-301
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Briseis group: 4 itemsRead the games at 23.257-897, focusing especially on 257-652. How and why does Homer detail these games (especially the chariot race and its aftermath) so extensively?
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Secondary Reading: 4 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 298ff;
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The Iliad: a commentary, Vol.6: Books 21-24 - , 1993
Book
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Cunning intelligence in Greek culture and society - , , 1978
Book chapter 1 [on the chariot race]
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Chryses group: 3 itemsRead Book 24.1-187. In what ways does this opening to the final book of the Iliad make it a fitting ending to the plot and themes of the Iliad?
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Secondary Reading: 3 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 30-37 and pp. 309-323
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Iliad, book XXIV - 1982
Book pp. 8-35.
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SECOND HOUR: PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION: Pathos, supplication and tragedy: the significance of Book 24.
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Presentation 1: 6 itemsIn what ways does Book 24 exhibit what we would now call ‘tragic’ sensibilities?
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Secondary Reading: 6 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 30-37 and pp. 309-323.
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Iliad, book XXIV - 1982
Book pp. 1-16.
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The mortal hero: an introduction to Homer's Iliad - 1984
Book chapter 5.
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Tragic form and feeling in the Iliad -
Chapter
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Tragic Form and Feeling in the Iliad - 1982
Article Original article with Greek not translated .
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Notes on Tragic Visualizing in the Iliad -
Chapter
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Presentation 2: 5 itemsDiscuss the way in which Book 24 manipulates the motifs of supplication, lament and the treatment of corpses.
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 30-37 and pp. 309-323.
K. Crotty The Poetics of Supplication: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (Ithaca 1994). On order
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WEEK 8: Historicity and ‘Homeric society’/ is there a polis in this text? / Gender roles 28 items
FIRST HOUR: GROUP WORK
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Achilles group: 5 itemsIn what sense might the Iliad represent an ‘historical’ society? What ‘contemporary meaning’ might it have had for its intended first audience?
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Secondary Reading: 5 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 20-23.
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The Use and Abuse of Homer - 1986
Article [recommended: NB: reprinted in D. Cairns Oxford Readings in Homer’s Iliad (Oxford 2001)
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Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Chapter [recommended starting points. Note that Raafalub sees Homeric society as more ‘consistent’ and related to the (slightly earlier) real society of the poem’s first audiences than many scholars do] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Chapter [recommended starting points. Note that Raafalub sees Homeric society as more ‘consistent’ and related to the (slightly earlier) real society of the poem’s first audiences than many scholars do] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Briseis group: 4 itemswhat is the significance of warfare for our interpretation of the Iliad’s relationship with Greek history?
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Secondary Reading: 4 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 39-43;
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Greece in the making, 1200-479 BC - 2009
Book Ch.5 [Available in the library and as an e-book.]
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Chryses group: 3 itemswhat specific aspects of the Iliad make us sceptical that it can represent any ‘real society’ or single historical period? ). You could start by thinking about the boar’s tusk helmet at 10.261-5 and Ajax’s shield in book 7.
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Secondary Reading: 3 items
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Who's Who in 'Homeric' Society? - 1984
Article
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An Historical Homeric Society? - 1974
Article
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Greece in the making, 1200-479 BC - 2009
Book Ch.5 [Available in the library and as an e-book.]
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SECOND HOUR: PRESENTATION and DISCUSSION: is there a polis in this text?
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Presentation 1: 8 itemsDo the Iliad and Odyssey contain events, scenes, language or motifs which in some way point to the poems being ‘aware’ of the concept of the polis as a political community? Why is this question important?
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Secondary Reading: 8 items
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Reciprocities in Homer - 1982
Article
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The world of Odysseus - 1979
Book Other editions available in the library.
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The Use and Abuse of Homer - 1986
Article [recommended: NB: reprinted in D. Cairns Oxford Readings in Homer’s Iliad (Oxford 2001)]
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Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Chapter
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Polis -
Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Homer and the sacred city - 1994
Book Read pp 1-15.
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Presentation 2: 6 itemsWhat does the Iliad have to say about gendered social roles and functions?
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Secondary Reading: 6 items
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The Divided World of Iliad VI - 1981
Article
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Gender -
Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Chapter [highly recommended] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Women -
Chapter [good starting point] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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WEEK 9: Ethics and Values in Homeric Heroism: honour, shame, cooperation and competition 30 items
FIRST HOUR: GROUP WORK
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Achilles group: 7 itemswhat moral and social concepts drive the Homeric hero to be competitive? Think of some examples of competitive values and behaviour from the text.
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Secondary Reading: 7 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 23-6
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Homeric Values and Homeric Society - 1971
Article [discredited but still worth reading]
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Values -
Chapter [recommended starting point] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Shame -
Chapter [recommended starting point] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Honor -
Chapter [recommended starting point] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Homeric morality - 1994
Book
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Briseis group: 6 itemswhat moral and social concepts drive the Homeric hero to be cooperative? Think of some examples of cooperative values and behaviour from the text.
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Secondary Reading: 6 items
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Affronts and quarrels in the Iliad -
Chapter
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Values -
Chapter [recommended starting points] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Shame -
Chapter [recommended starting points] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Honor -
Chapter [recommended starting points] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Morality in Homer - 1987
Article
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Euboulia in the Iliad - 1986
Article [also in Cairns (ed.) Oxford Readings]
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Chryses group: 3 itemsin what ways does the concept and value of reciprocity underpin the Iliad?
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Secondary Reading: 3 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 23-6
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Reciprocities in Homer - 1982
Article
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Reciprocity in ancient Greece 1998
Book [includes: G. Zanker ‘Beyond reciprocity: The Akhilleus-Priam scene in Iliad 24’, 73 –92, and N. Postlethwaite ‘Akhilleus and Agamemnon: generalized reciprocity’, 93-104]
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SECOND HOUR: PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION
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Presentation 1: 7 itemsTo what extent is ‘Homeric society’ a ‘shame culture’?
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Secondary Reading: 7 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 23-6
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Values -
Chapter [recommended starting points] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Shame -
Chapter [recommended starting points] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Honor -
Chapter [recommended starting points] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Homeric Society: A Shame-Culture? - 1987
Article
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Morals and Values in Homer - 1970
Article
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Presentation 2: 5 items‘It is not true that its dominant values are agonistic and individualistic’ (Cairns 2001, p. 21). Can honour promote cooperative values in the Iliad?
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Secondary Reading: 5 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 23-6
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Conflict and Community in the Iliad - ,
Chapter
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Affronts and quarrels in the Iliad -
Chapter [recommended]
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Euboulia in the Iliad - 1986
Article [also in Cairns (ed.) Oxford Readings]
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Homeric morality - 1994
Book
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WEEK 10: The Gods and Fate: the ‘role’ of the gods / fate as tradition / fate and free will 30 items
FIRST HOUR: GROUP WORK
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Achilles group: 4 itemsWhat do scenes on Olympus contribute to the poem’s atmosphere?
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Secondary Reading: 4 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book 26-32
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Homer: the resonance of epic - , 2005
Book especially chapter 3.
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Homer on life and death - 1980
Book esp. pp. 144-204
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Chapter [recommended] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Briseis group: 5 itemsHow important is Thetis for our understanding of the Iliad?
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Secondary Reading: 5 items
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Gods and Men in the Iliad and the Odyssey - 1985
Article
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The Wrath of Thetis - 1986
Article
The above article is also in:
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Chapter
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The mortal hero: an introduction to Homer's Iliad - 1984
Book ch. 2.
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Chryses group: 6 itemsWhat are the key modes of interaction between men and gods which the Iliad depicts? In what ways are these interactions important to the poem?
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Secondary Reading: 6 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 26-32
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Hiketeia - 1973
Article [a key study of supplication]
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Chapter [recommended] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Prayer -
Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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SECOND HOUR: PRESENTATIONS and DISCUSSION
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Presentation 1: 7 itemsAgamemnon blames Atê for his disastrous actions in Book 19. Use the case of Agamemnon to discuss the problems of free will and fate in the Iliad.
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Secondary Reading: 7 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 26-32
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Atê -
Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Introduction to 'Oxford Readings in Homer’s Iliad' -
Chapter esp. pp. 12-20
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Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Presentation 2: 6 items‘Homer’s gods are very human and humanly intelligible’. In what senses is this true?
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Secondary Reading: 6 items
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Homer's Iliad: a commentary on three translations - 2003
Book pp. 26-32
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Homer: the resonance of epic - , 2005
Book especially chapter 3.
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Homer on life and death - 1980
Book esp. pp. 144-204
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Chapter [recommended] Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Some aspects of the gods in the Iliad - 1970
Article
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Homeric morality - 1994
Book [See Part 1 on the gods’ (im)morality - highly recommended]
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WEEK 11: ‘Reception of the Iliad and Revision session 17 items
FIRST HOUR: PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION
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Presentation or group discussion: 9 items
a) 'Logue is a major example of how modern receivers confront the unacceptable in Homer' (Hardwick 2004, p. 348). Briefly illustrate and evaluate.
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Primary Reading: 6 itemshave a look at least one of Christopher Logue’s volumes of poetry based on the Iliad:
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War music: an account of books 16 to 19 of Homer's Iliad - , 1981
Book
See also some of this put together in one volume:
See Greenwood's appendix (below) for the detailed publication history and further relevant volumes
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Secondary Reading: 2 items
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Shards and suckers: contemporary receptions of Homer
Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Logue's Tele-Vision: Reading Homer from a Distance -
Chapter Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Presentation or group discussion: 2 items
b) 'She has truly made, to borrow a phrase from Stephen Spender, a "miniature Iliad ", taut, fluid and graceful, its tones knelling like bells into the clear air, ringing out in remembrance of all the untimely dead' (Philip Womack in The Telegraph). What kind of 'reception' of the Iliad is Alice's Oswald's Memorial?
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Primary Reading: 1 item
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Memorial: a version of Homer's Iliad - 2013
Book
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Presentation or group discussion: 4 items
c) 'In comparison with Sophocles, Petersen is downright modest in his modifications' (Ahl in Winkler (ed.) 2007, p.172). Briefly make a case for Troy (2006, Warner Bros) being adequate to its Homeric pedigree.
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Primary and secondary viewing/reading 3 items
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Troy: from Homer's Iliad to Hollywood epic - 2007
Book Available in the library and as an e-book.
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Troy - 2009 (dvd)
Audio-visual document • Try to look at the film itself (a copy will be available)
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SECOND HOUR: REVISION:
We will discuss a past paper and techniques for answering the exam's comment and essay questions. We will also discuss revision techniques and the key themes of the course.
