The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic CycleJHU Press, 30. apr 2003 - 320 pages Although the Iliad and Odyssey narrate only relatively small portions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, for centuries these works have overshadowed other, more comprehensive narratives of the conflict, particularly the poems known as the Epic Cycle. In The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle, Jonathan Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the war's history and the legends surrounding it, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age. He traces the development and transmission of the Cyclic poems in ancient Greek culture, comparing them to later Homeric poems and finding that they were far more influential than has previously been thought. |
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... ages , even the Archaic Age.11 According to this view , the Iliad reflects a dim and distant beginning of Greek ( or even human ) thought and culture . Many scholars have rejected this as simplistic and misleading.12 In addition the ...
... Archaic Age that cut across lines of genre , media , function , class , and gender.18 Throughout the Archaic Age , this huge and manifold tradition of the Trojan War in all its media would be slowly evolving . In this book I explore the ...
... Archaic Age fluid yet coherent performance traditions were creating and re - creating individual poems about the Trojan War , including the Homeric and Cyclic poems . Eventually these poetic traditions would become stabilized and ...
... ages , when the Trojan War tradi- tion was indeed dominated by the Homeric poems , should not blind us to the lack of Homeric influence in the Archaic Age . I intend to focus on the Epic Cycle in order to reach a better understanding of ...
... Archaic Age , when the tradition of the Trojan War was still a living one . As time passed and literacy grew , a limited number of epics were recorded and began to be viewed as representatives of the Tro- jan War tradition . The Trojan ...
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The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle Jonathan S. Burgess Limited preview - 2004 |
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