The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5, Books 17-20This is Volume Five of the major six volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad now being prepared under the general editorship of Professor G. S. Kirk. Volumes I and II, published in 1985 and 1990 respectively, were edited by Professor Kirk himself. Like its predecessors, the present volume (the first to be edited by one of Professor Kirk's four collaborators) consists of four introductory essays (including discussions of similes and other features of