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In his introduction Harold Bloom states that, together with the Bible, the Iliad represents the foundation of Western literature, thought, and spirituality. The piece is the focus of this title in our Blooms Notes series. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on the work, this text includes a structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters.

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title:Homer's Iliad Bloom's Notes
author:Bloom, Harold.
publisher:Chelsea House Publishers
isbn10 | asin:0791040615
print isbn13:9780791040614
ebook isbn13:9780585247397
language:English
subjectHomer.--Iliad, Epic poetry, Greek--Examinations--Study guides, Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature, Trojan War--Literature and the war, Homer.--Iliad, Greek literature--History and criticism.
publication date:1996
lcc:PA4037.H776 1996eb
ddc:883/.01
subject:Homer.--Iliad, Epic poetry, Greek--Examinations--Study guides, Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature, Trojan War--Literature and the war, Homer.--Iliad, Greek literature--History and criticism.
Page 1
Homer's Iliad
Bloom's NOTES
A Contemporary Literary Views Book
Edited and with an Introduction by
Harold Bloom
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1996 by Chelsea House Publishers, a division of Main Line Book Co.
Introduction 1996 by Harold Bloom
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher.
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
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Cover illustration: Adaption from an attic red-figure cup depicting Achilles and Patroklos
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Homer's The Iliad / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
p. cm.(Bloom's Notes)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Summary: Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural
analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
ISBN 0-7910-4061-5
1. Homer. Iliad. 2. Epic poetry, GreekExaminationsStudy guides.
3. Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature. 4. Trojan WarLiterature and
the war. [1. Homer. Iliad. 2. Greek literatureHistory and criticism.]
I. Bloom, Harold. II. Series.
PA4037.H776 1995
883.01dc20
95-45098
CIP
AC
Chelsea House Publishers
1974 Sproul Road, Suite 400
P.O. Box 914
Broomall, PA 19008-0914
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Contents
User's Guide
4
Introduction
5
Biography of Homer
7
Thematic and Structural Analysis
11
List of Characters
30
Critical Views
33
Books by Homer
84
Works about Homer and the Iliad
86
Index of Themes and Ideas
90

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User's Guide
This volume is designed to present biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on Homer and the Iliad. Following Harold Bloom's introduction, there appears a detailed biography of the author, discussing the major events in his life and his important literary works. Then follows a thematic and structural analysis of the work, in which significant themes, patterns, and motifs are traced. An annotated list of characters supplies brief information on the chief characters in the work.
A selection of critical extracts, derived from previously published material by leading critics, then follows. The extracts consist of such things as statements by the author on his work, early notices of the work, and later evaluations down to the present day. The items are arranged chronologically by date of first publication. A bibliography of Homer (including important editions of the Iliad and the Odyssey from the invention of printing to the present day, as well as selected English translations), a list of additional books and articles on him and on the Iliad and an index of themes conclude the volume.
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Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English at the New York University Graduate School. He is the author of twenty books and the editor of more than thirty anthologies of literature and literary criticism.
Professor Bloom's works include Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), The Visionary Company (1961), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), and Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (1982). The Anxiety of Influence (1973) sets forth Professor Bloom's provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. His most recent books are The American Religion (1992) and The Western Canon (1994).
Professor Bloom earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1955 and has served on the Yale faculty since then. He is a 1985 MacArthur Foundation Award recipient and served as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University in 198788. He is currently the editor of the Chelsea House series Major Literary Characters and Modern Critical Views, and other Chelsea House series in literary criticism.
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Introduction
Harold Bloom
Together with the Bible, the Iliad represents the foundation of Western literature, thought, and spirituality: of culture in the broadest sense. That banal truism contains the permanent split in Western consciousness: Our cognition and aesthetics are Greek, but our religion and moralitywhether Christian, Moslem, Judaicmake us people of the Book, and the book is not the
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