Combining the advantages of a general introduction and a detailed commentary, this book makes the insights of recent Homeric scholarship accessible even to a nonspecialist audience.

The fifth volume of the major six-volume commentary on Homer's Iliad is the first to be edited by one of G.S. Kirk's four collaborators.

This is the first volume of a projected six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad, under the General Editorship of professor G.S. Kirk. Professor Kirk himself is the editor of the present volume, which covers the first four Books of Iliad.

This book concerns the way we read--or rather, imagine we are listening to--ancient Greek and Latin poetry.

This is the first volume of a projected six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad, under the General Editorship of professor G. S. Kirk. Professor Kirk himself is the editor of the present volume, which covers the first four Books of Iliad.

This, the fourth volume in the six-volume Commentary on the Iliad being prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G. S. Kirk, covers Books 13-16, including the Battle for the Ships, the Deception of Zeus and the Death of Patroklos.

The six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G. S. Kirk is complete with the publication of this volume.

The Greek text is not included. This volume contains a consolidated index of the Greek words in all six volumes.