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This commentary is a welcome addition to the scholarly literature, and will undoubtedly serve its intended audience very well indeed. (Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review )
Pulleyn's horizons are broad, his linguistic foundation impeccable, his enthusiasm and appreciation of Homer's art everywhere evident ... a great deal of hard work and hard thought has gone into this edition, which deserves to be widely used. (Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review )
Pulleyn's intended readership are undergraduate students and readers who come to Homer for the first time after having been reared on Attic language and literature. These readers will certainly profit from Pulleyn's reliable translation and his thorough treatment of Homeric syntax ... the commentary offers much useful guidance in reading the original text. Readers will also profit from Pulleyn's full introduction, which addresses many of the long-standing problems of Homeric scholarship ... will be useful to readers wishing to tackle liad 1 in the original language. (Journal of Hellenic Studies )
Informative introduction and rich commentary. (Greece & Rome )
Pulleyn's horizons are broad, his linguistic foundation impeccable, his enthusiasm and appreciation of Homer's art everywhere evident ... a great deal of hard work and hard thought has gone into this edition, which deserves to be widely used. (Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review )
Pulleyn's intended readership are undergraduate students and readers who come to Homer for the first time after having been reared on Attic language and literature. These readers will certainly profit from Pulleyn's reliable translation and his thorough treatment of Homeric syntax ... the commentary offers much useful guidance in reading the original text. Readers will also profit from Pulleyn's full introduction, which addresses many of the long-standing problems of Homeric scholarship ... will be useful to readers wishing to tackle liad 1 in the original language. (Journal of Hellenic Studies )
Informative introduction and rich commentary. (Greece & Rome )
Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review
"This commentary is a welcome addition to the scholarly literature, and will undoubtedly serve its intended audience very well indeed."
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am one of a dying breed - those choosing to take Classical Greek for GCSE. Anyway, this book is very useful to the Classics student - it gives you the texts, vocabulary, a guide to "Homeric forms" and the meter of the poem, background reading and much more. My only criticism is that the Greek font used can be hard to read in places - but if you're doing Classical Greek at any level, a funny font isn't going to put you off. It certainly didn't put me off. Make sure you get a decent English translation of the whole Iliad as well, as this will really help you.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
A fine reader with only a few minor flaws
12 Feb 2005
Format:Paperback
HOMER: ILIAD I is a reader for the first book of Homer's great war epic with notes and commentary by Simon Pulleyn, former lecturer in Classics at Merton College, Oxford.
Pulleyn begins with a 60-page introduction. He first discusses the question of authorship and the dispute over the Iliad's origin in oral or written poetry. He then talks about Homer's style, and the peculiarities of his syntax which may daunt beginning students. Pulleyn gives an explanation of the worldview of Homer and the Greeks, helping the student understand the difference between Greek religion and our own, and how the Greeks saw Man. His introduction to the Iliad itself concludes with a history of the poem's transmission, and the important of scholia in understanding ancient techniques of scholarship. Finally, Pulleyn gives an overview of the Homeric dialect of Greek and its differences from Attic, as well as the phenomenon of digamma, and a guide to epic metre. I was disappointed to see that Pulleyn does not give a list of words in which digamma should be assumed, and he forces the student to obtain another text that does have this detail.
The Greek text of Book I of the Iliad itself is that of the Oxford Classical Text. Set in the typeface Oxonia, it should be supremely readable, though I found it photocopied a bit too small. Pulleyn provides a facing-page translation into English meant as a crib. It does not, of course, seek to compete with the literary translations of Fagles or Lattimore, but it does balance readability and the need to translate line by line without paraphrase.
Pulleyn the text with abundant notes; nearly every second line is commented on. He clarifies both difficulties of grammar and matters of Greek culture. Instead of given an authoritative explanation in many instances (such as in the question of Athena's attribute "glaukopos"), he speaks of how the matter is viewed by various scholars. A glossary and index end the book. The glossary contains, apparently, all words used in the first book. Irregular principal parts of verbs are given only if they too appear in the text, which may prove vexing to students wishing to prepare flashcards from which all forms can be deduced.
What I especially like about Pulleyn's reader is its incorporation of comparative linguistics and comparative poetics. It is a nice touch to explain the nominative dual osse "eyes" as coming from Proto-Indo-European *okwye (or, with laryngeal, *H1ekwye). In his introduction he compares certain portions of the Iliad to works of both other Indo-European peoples and the Greek's non-IE neighbours in the Near East, showing how the Iliad is a fusion of many sources into one Greek original.
In spite of a few minor drawbacks, ILIAD: BOOK ONE is an excellent reader and will prove quite useful to the student of Homeric Greek. Be sure to get a list of vocabulary with digamma indicated, however.
Pulleyn begins with a 60-page introduction. He first discusses the question of authorship and the dispute over the Iliad's origin in oral or written poetry. He then talks about Homer's style, and the peculiarities of his syntax which may daunt beginning students. Pulleyn gives an explanation of the worldview of Homer and the Greeks, helping the student understand the difference between Greek religion and our own, and how the Greeks saw Man. His introduction to the Iliad itself concludes with a history of the poem's transmission, and the important of scholia in understanding ancient techniques of scholarship. Finally, Pulleyn gives an overview of the Homeric dialect of Greek and its differences from Attic, as well as the phenomenon of digamma, and a guide to epic metre. I was disappointed to see that Pulleyn does not give a list of words in which digamma should be assumed, and he forces the student to obtain another text that does have this detail.
The Greek text of Book I of the Iliad itself is that of the Oxford Classical Text. Set in the typeface Oxonia, it should be supremely readable, though I found it photocopied a bit too small. Pulleyn provides a facing-page translation into English meant as a crib. It does not, of course, seek to compete with the literary translations of Fagles or Lattimore, but it does balance readability and the need to translate line by line without paraphrase.
Pulleyn the text with abundant notes; nearly every second line is commented on. He clarifies both difficulties of grammar and matters of Greek culture. Instead of given an authoritative explanation in many instances (such as in the question of Athena's attribute "glaukopos"), he speaks of how the matter is viewed by various scholars. A glossary and index end the book. The glossary contains, apparently, all words used in the first book. Irregular principal parts of verbs are given only if they too appear in the text, which may prove vexing to students wishing to prepare flashcards from which all forms can be deduced.
What I especially like about Pulleyn's reader is its incorporation of comparative linguistics and comparative poetics. It is a nice touch to explain the nominative dual osse "eyes" as coming from Proto-Indo-European *okwye (or, with laryngeal, *H1ekwye). In his introduction he compares certain portions of the Iliad to works of both other Indo-European peoples and the Greek's non-IE neighbours in the Near East, showing how the Iliad is a fusion of many sources into one Greek original.
In spite of a few minor drawbacks, ILIAD: BOOK ONE is an excellent reader and will prove quite useful to the student of Homeric Greek. Be sure to get a list of vocabulary with digamma indicated, however.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Excellent all in one resource
29 Aug 2004
Format:Paperback
This edition of Iliad I contains an introduction, text in Greek, commentary and vocabulary. The introduction discusses style, sources, meter, transmission and other issues. The author's prose is plain and graceful, not scholarly and pedantic. The commentary notes are long, detailed, extensive, fascinating. The Greek font is readable: words and accents are clearly printed. The font is small, but it seems obvious that all publishers of Homer in the original want his readers to share his disability. The 1200 word vocabulary is convenient because it is located in the same volume as the text, it is limited to Homeric usage, and it is restricted to words found in Book I. Also consider the excellent Draper on Book I (0472067923).
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
BEWARE ! Buy Pulleyn's (green) book not the orange book
8 Mar 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This rating is of the alternate paperback version of Pulleyn's book that Amazon lists on its website. Beware---this alternate version (with an orange cover) has no relationship to the book by Pulleyn (with a green cover) copyright 2000. It is a very sloppy reproduction of a 100 page typewritten manuscript by Harrison and Jordan with an original copyright date of about 1988. It is hardly readable and not acceptable.
I do not mean to downgrade Pulleyn's book, but unfortunately, Amazon has both books and their reviews linked together as if they were the same. You must be careful when you order that you get the book you want.
I do not mean to downgrade Pulleyn's book, but unfortunately, Amazon has both books and their reviews linked together as if they were the same. You must be careful when you order that you get the book you want.
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