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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... early Greek art at the CAAS spring meeting at Rutgers University in 1995 , at the Leeds Interna- tional Latin Seminar in 1996 , and at the University of Toronto in 1997 ; a paper on the Iliad " leaves " simile at the conference Homer ...
... early point in time cannot be known . But 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 ...
... early Greek mythology , for Greek artists en- thusiastically portrayed it also , as will be stressed in this book . So narrative of the myth of the Trojan War in different verse genres must have existed concurrently with nonprofessional ...
... early date , because they were undoubtedly too long to record easily . I ... ancient poetry and poets called the Xpηoto- μálεia граμμаTɩKń ( the title refers to ... Greek world who sang of the Trojan War . Thomas 12 THE TRADITION OF THE ...
... early Classical Age establishing a fixed form of an " Epic Cycle " that would be lasting . The Epic Cycle as we know ... Greek word kúkλos , which by convention is translated as " cycle " in the context of the " Epic Cycle , " means ...
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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 |