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Commentary to the Iliad. Edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices
Intended to be used in conjunction with "The Iliad of Homer a Parsed interlinear Text" Available for the Kindle from Lighthouse Digital PublishingThe object of the present edition of the Iliad is to offer a guide to students anxious to know more of Homer than they can learn from elementary school-books. It must be confessed that, when once the strict limits of a verbal commentary are passed, it is hard to know which path to choose from the many which open into the world revealed to us by the Homeric poems. We find ourselves at the starting-point of all that has given Greece her place in the world—of Greek history, of Greek art, of Greek philosophy, theology, and myth. The poems are our ultimate resource for the study of the history of the Greek language, and it is to them that we owe all our knowledge of the one great school of Greek criticism. An editor may be pardoned if, at the risk of apparent superficiality and discursiveness, he attempts, not of course to follow all or any of these roads, but barely to indicate the direction in which they lead.
1120 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1900
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June 20, 2015
A very old commentary, but very inexpensive on Kindle. Being written before the theory of oral composition, it makes certain assumptions about early and late versions which are obsolete, and the discussion of the Greek was written before the decipherment of Linear B, but nevertheless it is still very useful for reading the text and trying to understand the less common words and constructions. It's not for a beginner in Homeric Greek; it's very detailed, but I found it very helpful. Not as helpful as it should have been though -- the Kindle version has some problems.
Firstly, like most low priced Kindle books, it was essentially not proofread; nearly every paragraph contained typos, both in the English and more problematically in the Greek quotations, which in many cases made it impossible to tell what form he was talking about (one or more letters replaced by *>, accents moved to the preceding or following letter, which is a problem if that's the very question he's talking about, random capitalization), there were missing words at the ends of some sentences, and the last word of many sentences were transposed with the first word of the next sentence, especially when it was a citation (Schol. The A. . . .for Schol. A. The. . .)
Secondly, despite the subtitle, the Kindle edition doesn't omit just the text, which is understandable, but also the Introduction, the Introductions to the individual books, and the Appendices, which are referred to continually in the notes. This is just the notes.
June 19
56. Walter Leaf, Commentary to the Iliad. Edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices [1900/1902]
A very old commentary, but very inexpensive on Kindle. Being written before the theory of oral composition, it makes certain assumptions about early and late versions which are obsolete, and the discussion of the Greek was written before the decipherment of Linear B, but nevertheless it is still very useful for reading the text and trying to understand the less common words and constructions. It's not for a beginner in Homeric Greek; it's very detailed, but I found it very helpful. Not as helpful as it should have been though -- the Kindle version has some problems.
Firstly, like most low priced Kindle books, it was essentially not proofread; nearly every paragraph contained typos, both in the English and more problematically in the Greek quotations, which in many cases made it impossible to tell what form he was talking about (one or more letters replaced by *>, accents moved to the preceding or following letter, which is a problem if that's the very question he's talking about, random capitalization), there were missing words at the ends of some sentences, and the last word of many sentences were transposed with the first word of the next sentence, especially when it was a citation (Schol. The A. . . .for Schol. A. The. . .)
Secondly, despite the subtitle, the Kindle edition doesn't omit just the text, which is understandable, but also the Introduction, the Introductions to the individual books, and the Appendices, which are referred to continually in the notes. This is just the notes.
Firstly, like most low priced Kindle books, it was essentially not proofread; nearly every paragraph contained typos, both in the English and more problematically in the Greek quotations, which in many cases made it impossible to tell what form he was talking about (one or more letters replaced by *>, accents moved to the preceding or following letter, which is a problem if that's the very question he's talking about, random capitalization), there were missing words at the ends of some sentences, and the last word of many sentences were transposed with the first word of the next sentence, especially when it was a citation (Schol. The A. . . .for Schol. A. The. . .)
Secondly, despite the subtitle, the Kindle edition doesn't omit just the text, which is understandable, but also the Introduction, the Introductions to the individual books, and the Appendices, which are referred to continually in the notes. This is just the notes.
June 19
56. Walter Leaf, Commentary to the Iliad. Edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices [1900/1902]
A very old commentary, but very inexpensive on Kindle. Being written before the theory of oral composition, it makes certain assumptions about early and late versions which are obsolete, and the discussion of the Greek was written before the decipherment of Linear B, but nevertheless it is still very useful for reading the text and trying to understand the less common words and constructions. It's not for a beginner in Homeric Greek; it's very detailed, but I found it very helpful. Not as helpful as it should have been though -- the Kindle version has some problems.
Firstly, like most low priced Kindle books, it was essentially not proofread; nearly every paragraph contained typos, both in the English and more problematically in the Greek quotations, which in many cases made it impossible to tell what form he was talking about (one or more letters replaced by *>, accents moved to the preceding or following letter, which is a problem if that's the very question he's talking about, random capitalization), there were missing words at the ends of some sentences, and the last word of many sentences were transposed with the first word of the next sentence, especially when it was a citation (Schol. The A. . . .for Schol. A. The. . .)
Secondly, despite the subtitle, the Kindle edition doesn't omit just the text, which is understandable, but also the Introduction, the Introductions to the individual books, and the Appendices, which are referred to continually in the notes. This is just the notes.
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