Paris
taking Helen (?)
Theban Vase Painting, 8th century BC
Course Outline of the Iliad
Topics
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Important Web Sites
Perseus Project Home Page (click
on "Starting Points" in the list at top)
Familiarize yourself right
away with this very useful site,
by searching for "Homer","Iliad",
"Odyssey", or another relevant topic.
(Click here to
see the results of a Search for the topic "Iliad" in
Perseus)
The Iliad
Perseus - complete text, internal links.
The Iliad:
Mythological Background
The Iliad:
Links to: Archaelogical History of Troy
- Literary History of Troy -
"Who’s Who" in the Iliad - Scenes of Action - Links
to Images
Iliad Page
Links, to: Virtual
Iliad - Achilles as a Hero - The "Art of War" in the Iliad -
Role of the "gods" in the Iliad - Homer's use
of Simile and Metaphor
Homer's Greece - Homer's History (slides) -
Comparative Myth
The Iliad:
"Study Guide for Reading Homer's Iliad ".
[Some QUIZ questions are found here]
The
Iliad
Study Guide: The Epic Genre - Reading the Iliad
(links)
Heroic Code - Gods - Character Analysis - Irony -
Simile & Metaphor - Foreshadowing - Imagery - Tragedy
The Iliad
Characters:
Gods & Mortals - Plot Summary - Themes
The Iliad:
Archeological Sites relevant to the Iliad.
Archaeologists have done much in the last century to increase our knowledge
about
a number of sites mentioned in the Iliad and Odyssey. Useful accounts
of
what we know about some of these sites are provided by the Perseus Project.
Perseus provides
brief geographical and physical descriptions, lists modern
archaeological excavations done at the sites, notes the architectural remains,
and
gives (for some sites) a site plan with arrows that you can "click" on to see
views
from specific locations at the sites. It is thus possible to "walk around"
the
remains of Agamemnon's Mycenae or Nestor's Pylos on your
own!
Here
are three of the sites from Perseus which are of most interest
to
readers of Homer.
Mycenae
(Agamemnon's citadel) (Click on various areas)
Pylos
(Nestor's Palace) (Click on various areas)
Troy
(Priam's City) (Click on various areas)
Trojan War Websites:
The Trojan War:
Articles & Resources
The Trojan War:
Notes on: Judgment of Paris - Helen - Siege - Fall -
Historicity of the War - Books - Other Websites
The Trojan War
- Brief Note, with Links.
Troy:
Troy:
Where is it? <--- (click here to see original
source-page, which has relevant links)
detail
of inset: The Troad: the regions of the war
Greece/Crete/Turkey
region of the Mediterranean
More Images
Trojan War Myth:
Numerous Images: Before the War - The War - Fall of Troy
& After -
Homecomings - 'Physical' Sites.
Troy
- many photos - diagrams
Trojan Horse:
Image
Horses of Homer: Image,
text
A Few Books
Harold Bloom, Homer's The Iliad: Edited and with an
Introduction.
NY, Chelsea House 1987
Mark W. Edwards, Homer: Poet of the Iliad. Johns Hopkins UP 1987
K. Friis-Johansen, The Iliad in Early Greek Art. Copenhagen 1967
G. S. Kirk, The Iliad: A Commentary: Books 1-4. Cambridge UP 1985
Richard P. Martin, The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the
Iliad.
Ithaca, Cornell UP 1989
Ian Mcauslan (ed), Homer. (Oxford UP 1998) PA4037.H7745
M. S. Silk, Homer: the Iliad. Cambridge UP 1987
Malcolm M. Willcock, A Commentary on Homer's Iliad. London, Macmillan 1970
Shakespeare, Troilus & Cressida (synopsis
of the play)
