Publisher:
St. Augustine's Press: 2005
140 pages. Text unmarked. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight age-toning to page edges. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. Seth Benardete's study of the Iliad, which initiated his scholarly career, bears the hallmarks of the unique turn of mind that characterized all his later work. In a brief Note written thirty years later, included in this volume, he looks back on what he sees as the limits of his original reading of the Iliad. Yet he seems to have been aware of the fundamental problems from early on that he wrestled with explicitly when he returned to Homer some ...
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