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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... 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 Cycle is even more ...
... important methodology for my study which uses post - Homeric texts as evidence for pre - Homeric traditions . But the initial influence of the Homeric poems has been more assumed than proved . These poems were not at first published as ...
... important role in the history of how the Epic Cycle poems were understood , it seems inadvisable to regard them as his- torically accurate . Truth has been thought , nonetheless , to lie behind the ascriptions , at least the ones most ...
... importance involves the contents of the Cypria . Herodotus stated that the Cypria and the Iliad differed about the voyage of Paris and Helen from Sparta . He claimed that in the Cypria they traveled immediately to Troy , enjoying smooth ...
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