A Companion to the Iliad for English Readers
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--- BOOK VIII Of all the books of the Iliad there can be no doubt that the eighth is the least original. Large parts at a time are made up of lines, and even whole speeches, taken bodily from other parts of the Iliad. Even the famous simile with which the book ends contains a couplet taken verbatim from a yet finer simile in book xvi. , where it is certainly more in place than here. The only episode which has real claim to origin- ality and merit of its own is the little " Aristeia of Teuk...ros, " in 266-329.
On the theory of the Iliad hitherto assumed there is no difficulty in accounting for this peculiar character of the book. It is inserted here not for its own sake, but simply to form an introduction to ix. When it was decided to intro- duce the poem of the " Embassy to Achilles, " it was clearly necessary to duplicate the defeat of the Greeks. It was only after a Greek defeat that the embassy could be sent to ask Achilles to relent. But there was clearly no room for such an interpolation in xi.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
747.
--- BOOK VIII Of all the books of the Iliad there can be no doubt that the eighth is the least original. Large parts at a time are made up of lines, and even whole speeches, taken bodily from other parts of the Iliad. Even the famous simile with which the book ends contains a couplet taken verbatim from a yet finer simile in book xvi. , where it is certainly more in place than here. The only episode which has real claim to origin- ality and merit of its own is the little " Aristeia of Teuk...ros, " in 266-329.
On the theory of the Iliad hitherto assumed there is no difficulty in accounting for this peculiar character of the book. It is inserted here not for its own sake, but simply to form an introduction to ix. When it was decided to intro- duce the poem of the " Embassy to Achilles, " it was clearly necessary to duplicate the defeat of the Greeks. It was only after a Greek defeat that the embassy could be sent to ask Achilles to relent. But there was clearly no room for such an interpolation in xi.
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