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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... Homer and the Tradition of the Trojan War 47 " Cyclic " Myth in the Homeric Poems The Date of the Homeric Poems Iliadic Images Cyclops : Image and Folktale Homeric Passages THREE The Epic Cycle and Homer 132 Cropping around the II.
... poems that we specifically know were collected together in the Epic Cycle ; with quotation marks and capitalized these terms are used in reference to mythological traditions from which these poems are derived . By Homeric poems I mean ...
Jonathan S. Burgess. Introduction The poems of the Epic Cycle are now lost . But what we know about them from ancient ... Homeric poems , the Iliad and the Odyssey , and in fact the Epic Cycle is even more representative of the Trojan War ...
... Homeric poems from other early Greek myth and poetry . An influential schematic approach has portrayed the world of the Homeric poems as intensely for- eign to later ages , even the Archaic Age.11 According to this view , the Iliad ...
... Homeric poems them- selves , would have narrated traditional stories.17 In addition , there would have been nonprofessional , unmetrical renderings , which are also amply por- trayed in Homeric epic ( e.g. , Phoenix on Meleager in book ...
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The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle Jonathan S. Burgess Limited preview - 2004 |
The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle Jonathan S. Burgess Limited preview - 2001 |
The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle Jonathan S. Burgess Limited preview - 2003 |