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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... ancient evidence is extremely important for our understanding of myth about the Trojan War . The poems in the Cycle share the same mythologi- cal tradition with the famous Homeric poems , the Iliad and the Odyssey , and in fact the Epic ...
... ancient world.2 The Trojan War poems in the Cycle were not the first poems to tell the story of this legendary war and the subsequent return of heroes homeward , and they need not be regarded as the best . But they do reach back to the ...
... Ancient testimonia that provide the names of the authors of the poems in the Epic Cycle should be regarded with suspicion.3 Until the late fifth century many epic works , including poems in the Epic Cycle , were thought to be composed ...
... ancient ascriptions known by the start of the Classical Age . But the anecdotes about the Cyclic poets and Homer are likely to be later than the fifth century , the result of attempts to join older traditions attributing the poems to ...
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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 |