PAGE, D.L.,
History and the Homeric Iliad.
University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles, 1966. VI,350p. Paperback. Tail spine bit worn. Spine with light reading trace. With signature from Prof. W.G. Arnott on free endpaper.
'In his book on the Odyssey Page was chiefly concerned to show that a close analysis of plot and structure can reveal something of the process of selection from, and combination of, different parts of an oral tradition. The present work has another aim: to assess the historical status of the Trojan War, and to consider the extent ot which, and the manner in which, knowledge of that encounter descended to the composer of the Iliad. (...) The reviewer has read this brilliant book several times, each time with profit and keen interest. He predicts that very many others will do the same, and that it will achieve a permanent place in the annals of Homeric scholarship.' (G.S. KRIK in the Classical Review (New Series), 1961, pp.8-14). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.
€ 18.50
(Antiquarian)