Measure and Music: Enjambement and Sentence Structure in the Iliad

By Higbie and Carolyn Higbie

This book is the first line-by-line analysis of enjambement and verse-internal breaks throughout the entire Iliad. Addressing larger, stylistic questions concerning genre, effect, and the manipulation and enjambing of formulae, Higbie examines a wide range of literary structures, including speeches, similes, battle scenes, and catalogues. A fundamental and thorough examination of enjambement in Homeric verse, this work will become a standard reference for scholars and students of Homer.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198143877
• ISBN13: 9780198143871
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"