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Geoffrey S. Kirk

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in Nottingham, The United Kingdom

December 03, 1921

Died

March 10, 2003

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Geoffrey Stephen Kirk was an English classicist known for his writings on Ancient Greek literature and mythology. He was Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge from 1974 to 1984.

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	The Presocratic Philosophers by Geoffrey S. Kirk, John E. Raven, Malcolm Schofield 4.23 avg rating — 911 ratings — published 1957 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nature of Greek Myths 3.69 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1974 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Myth: Its Meaning & Functions in Ancient & Other Cultures 3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1970 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iliad: A Commentary, Volume 1: Books 1-4 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Songs of Homer 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1962 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iliad: A Commentary, Volume 2: Books 5-8 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homer and the Oral Tradition 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iliad: A Commentary, Volume 3: Books 9-12 by Geoffrey S. Kirk (Editor), Bryan Hainsworth 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 6: Books 21-24 by Geoffrey S. Kirk, Nicholas Richardson 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5: Books 17-20 by Geoffrey S. Kirk (Editor), Mark W. Edwards really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1991 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Iliad: A Commentary (6 books)
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“Nowadays interest in the classical rhetorical figures is often slight, and the majority of Homer's readers are more likely to note (in the speeches of Akhilleus, for example) the intense dramatic effects produced by enjambment, emphatic positioning of words, and variation in the length of the cola, and the almost invariable presence of ring composition in a speech of any length. To these features little attention was paid in antiquity. But the rhetorical figures which were so important to the ancients also appear in abundance in Homer's poetry, and to listeners in particular (the sound-effects which many of them produce add a great deal to its power. In this, as in so much else, Homer was the teacher of the ancient world.”
― Geoffrey S. Kirk, The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5: Books 17-20

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“It is a remarkable paradox that nearly every important event in the Iliad is the doing of a god, and that one can give a clear account of the poem's entire action with no reference to the gods at all.”
― Geoffrey S. Kirk, The Iliad: A Commentary, Volume 4: Books 13-16

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“The purpose of a simile is to encourage the listener's imagination by likening something in the narrative of the heroic past to something which is directly within his own experience; and so the majority of Homeric similes are drawn from everyday life. This means, that they, like Akhilleus' shield, give us a view of the world lying beyond the war, the world that existed in the poet's own day and long after him.”
― Geoffrey S. Kirk, The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5: Books 17-20

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