{"product_id":"wounding-and-death-in-the-iliad-homeric-techniques-of-description-9780715629833","title":"Wounding and Death in the 'Iliad': Homeric Techniques of Description","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient and Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.-H. Friedrich's \u003ci\u003eVerwundung und Tod in Der Ilias\u003c\/i\u003e was originally published in 1956. Never before translated into English, its importance has slowly come to be recognised: first, because it discusses in detail the plausibility (or otherwise) of the wounds received on the Homeric battlefield and is therefore of considerable interest to historians of medicine; and second, because it makes a serious and sustained effort to grapple with the question of style, and thus confronts an issue which oral theory has scarcely touched. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter Jones adds a Preface briefly locating the work within the terms of oral theory; Kenneth Saunders (Emeritus Professor of Medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, London) updates Friedrich's medical analyses in a full Appendix.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45088506871959,"sku":"9780715629833","price":17735.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780715629833.webp?v=1767267447","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/wounding-and-death-in-the-iliad-homeric-techniques-of-description-9780715629833","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}