Homer and Early Greek Epic
Title | Homer and Early Greek Epic PDF eBook |
Author | Margalit Finkelberg |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 2019-12-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 311067145X |
This collection includes thirty scholarly essays on Homer and Greek epic poetry published by Margalit Finkelberg over the past three decades. The topics discussed reflect the author’s research interests and represent the main directions of her contribution to Homeric studies: Homer's language and diction, archaic Greek epic tradition, Homer's world and values, transmission and reception of the Homeric poems. The book gives special emphasis to some of the central issues in contemporary Homeric scholarship, such as oral-formulaic theory and the role of the individual poet; Neoanalysis and the character of the relationship between Homer and the tradition about the Trojan War; the multi-layered texture of the Homeric poems; the Homeric Question; the canonic status of the Iliad and the Odyssey in antiquity and modernity. All the articles are revised and updated. The book addresses both scholars and advanced students of Classics, as well as non-specialists interested in the Homeric poems and their journey through centuries.
From Hittite to Homer
Title | From Hittite to Homer PDF eBook |
Author | Mary R. Bachvarova |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 691 |
Release | 2016-03-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521509793 |
This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.
Homer's Original Genius
Title | Homer's Original Genius PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsti Simonsuuri |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 1979-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521221986 |
The querelle des anciens et des modernes - the question whether writers should imitate the classics or use literary forms which seemed more suited to their own era - had been debated in Europe since the earliest days of the Renaissance. This book analyses the development of the querelle following the adoption of the argument of the modernist faction of seventeenth-century France.
The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle
Title | The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan S. Burgess |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 2004-01-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 080187890X |
Presents a challenge to Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger context of the entire body of Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age.
Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry
Title | Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Øivind Andersen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 293 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521194970 |
This book investigates the relative chronology of early Greek poetry through linguistic and literary analyses of the texts themselves.
Early Greek Epic: Language, Interpretation, Performance
Title | Early Greek Epic: Language, Interpretation, Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Christos Tsagalis |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 668 |
Release | 2022-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110981386 |
In the last fifty years major developments have taken place, both in the field of Homeric studies and in the rest of early Greek epic. These developments have not only created a more solid basis for studying the Homeric epics, but they have also broadened our horizons with respect to the place of Homeric poetry within a larger cultural milieu. The impressive advances in Hesiodic studies, the more systematic approach to the Epic Cycle, the more nuanced use and re-evaluation of dominant twentieth-century theories like Neoanalysis and Oral Theory, the study of other fragmentary Greek epic, the cognitive turn, narratology, the performance of epic poetry in the ancient and modern world, the fruitful utilization of Indo-European material, and the widely accepted recognition of the close relation between Homer and the mythology and literature of the ancient Near East have virtually shaped anew the way we read and understand Homer, Hesiod, and early Greek epic. The studies collected in this volume are informed by most of the aforementioned sub-fields and span four research areas: (i) Homer; (ii) Hesiod; (iii) the Epic Cycle; (d) the performance of epic.
Homer's Winged Words
Title | Homer's Winged Words PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Reece |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 429 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004174419 |
For over 2500 years many of the most learned scholars of the Greek language have concerned themselves with the topic of etymology. The most productive source of difficult, even inexplicable, words was Homer s 28,000 verses of epic poetry. Steve Reece proposes an approach to elucidating the meanings of some of these difficult words that finds its inspiration primarily in Milman Parry s oral-formulaic theory. He proposes that during the long period of oral transmission acoustic uncertainties, especially regarding word boundaries, were continually occurring: a bard uttered one collocation of words, but his audience thought it heard another. The consequent resegmentation of words and phrases is the probable cause of some of the etymologically inexplicable words in our Homeric texts.