Ebook: Homers Katalog der Schiffe

The Catalogue of ships (B 474-785) in the Iliad can count as one of the main fields of interest of Homeric scholarship since antiquity. Yet the question of its origin and intention is still controversial. In his Habilitationsschrift (Basel 1996), now available in a slightly revised form as a Teubner monograph, Edzard Visser has made an enormous effort to solve the numerous questions concerning the Homeric Catalogue of ships raised over the centuries. The core question is that of the historic credibility of the account in the Iliad, whether written by Homer himself or a document of pre- or post-Homeric times.