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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 57
... 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 and Pylos . The term ...
... known in the Archaic Age . 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 ...
... known for the poems when they were ascribed to Homer . Perhaps the poems were not associated with any author at first , or perhaps the names of their traditional authors had become lost . Early on any epic poem could easily be conceived ...
... 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 Homer with newly ...
... known Proclus from the second century C.e. Proclus reportedly speaks of reading the poems himself , and some believe that the Epic Cycle poems would not have been preserved down to the fifth century c.E.29 What we know in general about ...
Other editions - View all
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 |