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Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott

Literary Criticism: Ancient & Classical

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A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary

This edition, commentary, and accompanying essays focus on the tenth book of theIliad, which has been doubted, ignored, and even scorned. Dué and Ebbott useapproaches based on oral traditional poetics to illuminate many of the interpretivequestions that strictly literary approaches find unsolvable. The introductory essaysexplain their textual and interpretive approaches and explicate the ambushtheme within the whole Greek epic tradition. The critical texts (presentedas a sequence of witnesses, including the tenth-century Venetus Amanuscript and select papyri) present and discuss the individualwitnesses and the variations they offer. The commentary demonstrateshow the unconventional Iliad 10 shares in the oral traditional natureof the whole epic, even though its poetics are specific to itsnocturnal ambush plot.

Casey Dué is Associate Professor and Director of ClassicalStudies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages,University of Houston

Mary Ebbott is Associate Professor of Classics,College of the Holy Cross

ILIAD 10 AND THE POETICS OF AMBUSH

Iliad 10 and the Poetics of AmbushA Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary

Cover image: Achilles and Polyxenaat the fountain. Drawing after a white-ground lekythos in the Toledo(OH)Museum of Art (1947.62)

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