TY - BOOK ID - 101715127 TI - Homer. Iliad. Book I AU - Homerus AU - Schein, Seth L. PY - 2022 SN - 1108412963 9781108420082 9781108412964 1108420087 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Homer. - Iliad. - Book 1 KW - Trojan War KW - Homer. KW - Achilles KW - Achìe KW - Achilas KW - Achille KW - Achilleus KW - Achilli KW - Ahil KW - Ahile KW - Ahilej KW - Ahillejs KW - Aĥilo KW - Aichill KW - Akhilles KW - Akhilleus KW - Akhilleusz KW - Akiles KW - Akili KW - Akille KW - Akilles KW - Akkilles KW - Aquiles KW - Aquilles KW - Axill KW - Axilles KW - Ἀχιλλεύς KW - آخيل KW - アキレウス KW - Akireusu KW - 아킬레우스 KW - 阿喀琉斯 KW - Ахіл KW - Ахил KW - Ахилл KW - Akhill KW - Ахіллес KW - אכילס KW - Akhiles UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101715127 AB - "The Iliad is organized according to two complementary, mutually reinforcing artistic principles, one related to its traditional narrative and mythological content, the other to its symmetrical form and to eighth-century aesthetic norms. The narrative moves linearly toward the death of Achilles and the fall of Troy, both of which, as Homer's audiences knew, will follow shortly after the burial of Hektor with which the Iliad concludes, and both of which are anticipated with increasing frequency in the course of the poem. In the mortal world of the Iliad, the movement toward death is a one-way movement, an overriding reality that lends the poem much of its power as a representation of the human condition. Nevertheless, as Aristotle observed, unlike other epic poets who told in chronological order everything that was supposed to have happened in the course of the events they described, Homer organized the Iliad and Odyssey thematically, rather than chronologically, each around a single subject - the wrath of Achilles and its consequences and the man Odysseus and his return home - and gave them an organic unity in which, in the case of the Iliad, the death of Achilles and fall of Troy have no place. Even so, most events in the poem are told in the order in which they occur; there is nothing like the extraordinarily complex narrative form of the Odyssey, with its multiple plots, its movement back and forth in time, its numerous internal narrators and narrative perspectives, and its constant change of locale"-- ER -