SOURCE: Sinaiko, Herman L. “Reading Homer's Iliad.” In Reclaiming the Canon: Essays on Philosophy, Poetry, and History, pp. 39-55. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998.
In the following excerpt, Sinaiko details the status of the Iliad as oral poetry, documents the nature of its epithets and similes, and outlines its depiction of Achilles as “the first and greatest tragic hero.”
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