In this book Joachim Latacz turns the spotlight of modern research on the much-debated question of whether the wealthy city of Troy described by Homer in the Iliad was a poetic fiction or a memory of historical reality. Earlier excavations at the hill of Hisarlik, in Turkey, on the Dardanelles, brought no answer, but in 1988 a new archaeological enterprise, under the direction of Manfred Korfmann, led to a radical shift in understanding. Latacz, one of Korfmann's closest collaborators, traces the course of these excavations, and the renewed investigation of the imperial Hittite archives they have inspired. As he demonstrates, it is now clear that the background against which the plot of the Iliad is acted out is the historical reality of the thirteenth century BC. The Troy story as a whole must have arisen in this period, and we can detect traces of it in Homer's great poem.

Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Latacz, Joachim

Windle, Kevin

Ireland, Rosh

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Published to great success in Europe, Joachim Latacz's book Homer, His Art and His World is now widely available to an English-speaking audience. Homer, His Art and His World takes Homer out of the preserve of specialists, and carefully outlines the historical background to Homer and his poetry. Current perspectives on the Iliad and the Odyssey are explained clearly, and narrow philological questions are deliberately avoided.Written in an accessible style for lovers of Homer and all who would like to be, Latacz's book brings Homer closer to the modern audience as a poet, and not as a historical source. Homer, His Art and His World includes sections on the relevance of Homer to modern issues in literary criticism; on contemporary culture and history, including the Mycenaean era; the renaissance of the eighth century B.C.E.; and the poetical context of Homer's work; as well as specific chapters on the Iliad and Odyssey and features peculiar to each poem.Homer, His Art and His World will be of interest to a broad range of readers, including those interested in the literary history of Western culture.Joachim Latacz is Professor of Greek at the University of Basel, Switzerland. James P. Holoka is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Eastern Michigan University.

Homer: His Art and His World

History

Ancient Civilizations

Univ of Michigan Pr

Americas

The Prolegomena provide an introduction to the Basler Iliad commentary. The volume includes essays on the history of Iliad commentaries and the text, formulaic language and the oral tradition, grammar, meter, characters, plot and chronological structure, narrative technique, and developments in Homeric criticism, as well as an Index of Mycenaean words with brief explanations.

Prolegomena (Homer's Iliad the Basel Commentary)

Graf, Fritz

Jong, Irene De

West, Martin L.

Nünlist, René

Wachter, Rudolf

Stoevesandt, Magdalene

de Gruyter

Text und Übersetzung (Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare (SWC)) (Ancient Greek Edition)

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 (Nünlist) - Actors (Graf/Stoevesandt) - Plot and chronological structure with diagrams (Latacz) - narrative technique (de Jong/Nünlist) - Index of Mycenean words in the Iliad, with brief explanations (Wachter). The third edition has been fully re-edited and contains an up-to-date bibliography.

Prolegomena (Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare (SWC)) (German Edition)

Walter de Gruyter

Homers Ilias prägt die europäischeLiteratur und Kunst bis heute. Bei der Erschließung dieses Werkes hat die Forschung in den letzten rd. 30 Jahren erhebliche Fortschritte gemacht. Die wichtigsten derzeit diskutierten Fragen zu Entstehungsweise, Sprache und Stil, Struktur, Zeitbezug, Nachwirkung u.a. werden hier in ständigem Dialog mit der internationalen Forschergemeinschaft aus der Sicht eines führenden europäischen Homer-Forschers beantwortet.

Homers Ilias: Studien zu Dichter, Werk und Rezeption (Kleine Schriften II) (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 327) (German Edition)

Die griechische Literatur 1 in Text und Darstellung. Archaische Periode.

Reclam, Ditzingen

Troia und Homer. Die Lösung eines uralten Rätsels.

Piper

Homer. Der erste Dichter des Abendlandes.

Winkler, Düsseldorf

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