In this book Joachim Latacz turns the spotlight of modern research on the much-debated question of whether the wealthy city of Troy described by Homer in the Iliad was a poetic fiction or a memory of historical reality.
Earlier excavations at the hill of Hisarlik, in Turkey, on the Dardanelles, brought no answer, but in 1988 a new archaeological enterprise, under the direction of Manfred Korfmann, led to a radical shift in understanding. Latacz, one of Korfmann's closest collaborators, traces the course of these excavations, and the renewed investigation of the imperial Hittite archives...

Die Prolegomena fuhren in das bessere Verstandnis des Homertextes selbst und in die Art der Kommentierung ein. Inhalt: Zur Geschichte der Ilias-Kommentierung (Latacz) - Textgeschichte (West) - Formelhaftigkeit und Mundlichkeit (Latacz) - Grammatik (Wachter) - Metrik (Nunlist) - Handlungsfiguren (Graf/Stoevesandt) -Handlungs- und Zeitstruktur mit Graphiken (Latacz) - Erzahltechnik (de Jong/Nunlist) -Wort-Index Homerisch-Mykenisch, mit Kurzerlauterungen (Wachter). Die dritte Auflage wurde vollstandig durchgesehen; kleinere Versehen wurden berichtigt, einige bibliographische Angaben...

Die zweite, durchgesehene Auflage zum Kommentar des Ersten Gesanges (Band I,2002) war fur einige Monate vergriffen. Nunmehrsteht den Benutzerndie dritte, durchgesehene Auflagezur Verfugung.

Since Ameis-Hentze-Cauer (1868-1913) no comprehensive, scholarly commentary of Homer's Iliad has been published in German. In the meantime considerable progress has been made in many traditional areas of Homeric studies (language, realia, structure etc.). In addition, generally acknowledged new fields such as narratology have been systematically studied. Furthermore, the knowledge of the Mycenaean language (Linear B) and oral poetry provide completely new possibilities of textual constitution and analysis. Using the old Ameis-Hentze-Cauer as a starting point, the new commentary reflects the...

Since Ameis-Hentze-Cauer (1868-1913) no comprehensive, scholarly commentary of Homer's Iliad has been published in German. In the meantime considerable progress has been made in many traditional areas of Homeric studies (language, realia, structure etc.). In addition, generally acknowledged new fields such as narratology have been systematically studied. Furthermore, the knowledge of the Mycenaean language (Linear B) and oral poetry provide completely new possibilities of textual constitution and analysis. Using the old Ameis-Hentze-Cauer as a starting point, the new commentary reflects the...