Homer: Iliad Book IV

Key features

• The Introduction provides a detailed introduction to Homeric language, as well as help with morphology, grammar, and syntax, so that students familiar only with Attic Greek can understand the text with confidence
• The Commentary gives particular emphasis to meter and style, and how they contribute to meaning and interpretation, so that students gain a more intimate familiarity with and detailed understanding of these topics, and therefore of the poetry of the Iliad
• Provides extensive comments on literary interpretation so that students understand the characters and issues at stake and appreciate how the book is a key turning point in the poem