Iliad, Homer - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Baldick, Julian. “The Iliad.” In Homer and the Indo-Europeans: Comparing Mythologies, pp. 46-98. London: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1994.

Traces extensive narrative and thematic resemblances between the Iliad and a selection of Indo-European mythological texts, especially the Sanskrit epic the Ramayana.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Homer's The Iliad, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987, 160 p.

Collection of nine essays by various contributors on such subjects as Homeric fantasy, characterization, and style.

Clark, Matthew. “Chryses's Supplication: Speech Act and Mythological Allusion.” Classical Antiquity 17, no. 1 (April 1998): 5-32.

Elucidates the opening scene of the Iliad involving Chryses and his request that the Greeks release his daughter, drawing parallels with Priam's supplication to Achilles at the close of the epic.

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