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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... mention early mentors , Peter Westervelt Sr. and Hu- bert Martin Jr. , without whom I would not be in this business . I greatly ap- preciate the support and interest displayed over the years by my parents and Ellen Aspinall . The ...
... mentioned within epic poetry is often very uncertain . Different poetic functions would cause some but not other material to be mentioned in any given poem . The fluidity of the oral traditions from which our fixed texts are derived ...
... mentioned in the testimonium would thus have a broad , metaphorical significance and would not refer to the Epic Cycle specifically . ogy Nagy has interestingly traced the metaphorical use of KÚKAOS to the Indo - European past , adding ...
... mentioned in the scholia.48 Perhaps there was a version of this poem that was adapted to its place in the Epic Cycle ( though the summary of the Epic Cycle by Proclus merely mentions where the Homeric poems fit in without trying to sum ...
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