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The Iliad Papeback -
by G. S. Kirk
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- Title The Iliad
- Author G. S. Kirk
- Binding Papeback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 488
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press CUP , Cambridge
- Date pp. 488
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6555745
- ISBN 9780521281744 / 0521281741
- Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.28 x 1.17 in (22.76 x 15.95 x 2.97 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Homer, Trojan War - Literature and the war
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 84-11330
- Dewey Decimal Code 883.01
First line
The artificial diction of the Homeric poems ('Kunstsprache') is in essence identical to that of the other poems in the same tradition of oral narrative song in hexameters, i.e. the remnants of the Epic Cycle, the Hesiodic poems and 'Homeric' Hymns, which extend well into the sixth century.