This anthology makes accessible to the reader seventeen of the most important studies of Homer and the Iliad to appear in the last forty years.
The Use and Abuse of Homer; The Making of Homer in the Sixth Century BC: Rhapsodes versus Steischorus; From the Iliad to the Odyssey; Do Homerid Heroes Make Real Decisions?; Divine and Human Causation in Homeric Epic; Affronts and Quarrels in the Iliad; Euboulia in the Iliad; Tragic Form and Feeling in the Iliad; Homer on Poetry and the POestry of Homer; A "Beautiful Death" and the Disfigured Corpse in Homeric Epic; The Shield of Achilles within the Iliad; The Epic Cycle and the Uniqueness of Homer; Past and Future in the Iliad; The Wrath of Thetis; Mythological Paradeigma in the Iliad; The Proem of the Iliad: Homer´s Art; Iliad I. 366-92: A Mirror Story.