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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... natural to consider the story of the Trojan War a largely historical saga and associate it with palaces , treasure , and kingly heroes . But the city level of Troy most suitable for the role ( VI ) was judged to have been destroyed by ...
... nature of the Homeric poems is taken for granted , for they undoubt- edly are based on traditional mythological material and employ traditional techniques of oral composition . I follow a Unitarian approach in recogniz- ing the unity of ...
... nature of the Homeric poems tend to portray them as receiving the tradition whole and subsuming it into the Homeric tradition . However the composition of the Homeric poems is accounted for , it is usu- ally thought that the Iliad and ...
... nature of the Cyclic poems originated at a time when it was widely believed that some parts of the Iliad could be dated " later " than other parts on the basis of linguistic evidence . That endeavor has been largely discredited because ...
... nature , would well ex- plain the odd transitions in the summary we possess . The evidence that lines of verse were created or changed at the begin- ning and ending of the Iliad to join it to the Epic Cycle suggests that such passages ...
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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 |