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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... certainly subject matter and characters in the tradition originated in places throughout the Greek world , with the mainland well represented by mythic strata from places as distant as Thessaly and Pylos . The term Panhellenic is ...
... Certainly the Homeric poems and the Epic Cycle poems concentrate on different topics , have different styles , and were created with different pur- poses in mind . And the generation of their final manifestation undoubtedly occurred in ...
... , even at the Panathenaic festival . Undoubtedly the perform- ance traditions of Cyclic poetry weakened relative to the performance tra- ditions of the Homeric poems . Certainly it is difficult 14 THE TRADITION OF THE TROJAN WAR.
Jonathan S. Burgess. ditions of the Homeric poems . Certainly it is difficult to conceive of rhap- sodes in the Archaic Age or early Classical Age establishing a fixed form of an " Epic Cycle " that would be lasting . The Epic Cycle as ...
... certainly would be significant if some books had not been included in this transmission ; perhaps this is an oblique acknowl- edgment that a selection of books included in the Epic Cycle is being sum- marized , not the complete poem ...
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The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle Jonathan S. Burgess Limited preview - 2001 |
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