The Language of Achilles and other papers with a Foreword by P.H.J. Lloyd-Jones

by: Parry, A.M.

This volume gathers together eighteen essays including 'Have we Homer's Iliad?', 'Landscape in Greek Poetry', 'The Two Voices of Virgil's Aeneid', 'Thucydides' Use of Abstract Language', three posthumous works on Virgil, Thucydides, and Homer, and his famous introduction to his father Milman Parry's classic book The Making of Homeric Verse, which he wrote just before his death. ; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 352 pages; This book presents the collected papers of Adam Parry, a brilliant young classical scholar who died prematurely in 1971. A professor at Yale, and lecturer in London, he wrote a number of highly respected articles in major classics journals on subjects ranging from Homer (his special interest) to Attic tragedy, Thucydides, Plato, and Virgil

The Language of Achilles and other papers with a Foreword by P.H.J. Lloyd-Jones

by: Parry, A.M.

• ISBN-13: 9780198148920 / 978-0-19-814892-0
• ISBN-03: 0198148925 / 0-19-814892-5
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989