Table of Contents

Introduction; Note on the text and apparatus; Text; Commentary; Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

The first commentary in English entirely devoted to the Iliad Book 6, illuminating some of the best-loved episodes in the whole poem.

About the Author

Barbara Graziosi is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Durham University. She is the author of Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and The Gods of Olympus: A History (2014), and has edited Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon (2007) together with Emily Greenwood, and The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (2009) together with George Boys-Stones and Phiroze Vasunia. Johannes Haubold is Leverhulme Senior Lecturer in Greek Literature at Durham University, and director of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East. He is the author of Homer's People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and has edited Plato and Hesiod (2010) together with George Boys-Stones. With Barbara Graziosi he has written articles on Homer and Greek lyric poetry, and Homer: The Resonance of Epic (2005).