Preface to the English Edition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface to the 1st Edition (2000) VII
4. Preface to the English Edition XI
5. Abbreviations XVII
6. Introduction: Commenting on Homer. From the Beginnings to this Commentary (COM) 1
7. History of the Text (HT) 27
8. Formularity and Orality (FOR) 39
9. Grammar of Homeric Greek (G) 65
10. Homeric Meter (M) 116
11. Cast of Characters of the Iliad: Gods (CG) 122
12. Cast of Characters of the Iliad: Human Beings (CH) 140
13. The Structure of the Iliad (STR) 151
14. Homeric Poetics in Keywords (P) 164
15. New Trends in Homeric Scholarship (NTHS) 177
16. Character Index 204
17. Homeric – Mycenaean Word Index (MYC) 236
18. Bibliographic Abbreviations 259