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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... Influence ( Literary , artistic , etc. ) 6. Literature and history - Greece . 7. Lost literature - Greece . 8. Cycles ( Literature ) . 9. Homer Influence . I. Title . PA4037.B84 2001 883'.01 - dc21 00-011637 ISBN 0-8018-7890 - X ( pbk ...
... Influence on the Epic Cycle ? Non - Homeric Aspects of the Epic Cycle Conclusion 172 APPENDIX A Photius and Proclus 177 APPENDIX B Schematization of R. Cook's Tables 181 APPENDIX C Trojan War Images to 600 B.C.E. 183 APPENDIX D Blinding ...
... tra- ditions behind them . The tradition of the Trojan War had a long and complex development before the Homeric poems were composed . Indo - European concepts may lie embedded within the story , and Near Eastern influences.
Jonathan S. Burgess. lie embedded within the story , and Near Eastern influences also undoubt- edly had an effect.2 Whether a sack of the city in Asia Minor now identi- fied as Troy was the historical inspiration for the story remains an ...
... influential schematic approach has portrayed the world of the Homeric poems as intensely for- eign to later ages ... influences . But because Near Eastern contact with Greek culture is undoubted for the Bronze Age , the dating of Near ...
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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 |