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IT'S THE ILIAD JIM, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT,
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This review is from: Iliad: Bk.6 (BCP Greek Texts) (Paperback)
As this is an entirely negative review, which I strictly limit myself in producing, I would like to stress that I ensured that I got the right book and right edition of it by searching on it twice, once by ISBN and once by title and author - this book came up twice. I am most specifically reviewing the 2002 impression (often books in Greek are re-typeset but this one, as we shall see, was not), which is later than the first publication in 1985. I might also add that in my experience, eg with the BCP typesetting of Plato's Symposium, the specific crippling demerit of this book is not repeated.
This book is aimed at beginners - GCSE or A level. I cannot recommend it for beginners or anyone else. It will put beginners off the study of Homeric Greek, or classical Greek, or Hellenistic Greek, or any other type of Greek if they have to struggle with presentation this bad early on. The overall impression of the book opened is bad. The English notes are set in small Courier typewriter font which it must be said, looks amateurish but it is legible. The Greek is also set in the same squidgy Courier, but the breathings and accents are exceedingly difficult to read. As Homer is oral poetry, and the book itself entirely sensibly recommends reading out loud to get the effect, the illegibility of the breathings alone will make poetic performance nerve-wracking if not embarrassing. There is no excuse for typesetting this bad. Do not buy this book, buy any other version and save your eyesight. I am glad I got this second-hand for a song, but it still no bargain. I have Greek texts well over a century old typeset superlatively well and still legible. BCP can and should do better.
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Iliad VI,
By Jakob K. Heckert - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Iliad: Bk.6 (BCP Greek Texts) (Paperback)
This is a great piece of literature, describing a slice of the struggle of the Greeks to conquer Troy.
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