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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... and the Tradition of the Trojan War 47 " Cyclic " Myth in the Homeric Poems The Date of the Homeric Poems Iliadic Images Cyclops : Image and Folktale Homeric Passages THREE The Epic Cycle and Homer 132 Cropping around the II.
... to 600 B.C.E. 183 APPENDIX D Blinding and Escape Images 188 APPENDIX E Select Epic Passages Featuring Leaves 190 Notes 193 References 259 Index 279 Illustrations A. Suicide of Ajax . Corinthian bronze mold . viii CONTENTS.
... passage would thus seem to agree with other evidence , already presented , that the Little Iliad narrated the fall of Troy . But the listing of titles of plays in the Poetics passage is very odd and commonly considered an interpolation ...
... his later discussion of its authorship , although that passage was not excerpted and passed along into the Iliad. 99.505 ( 528 ) . E. Achilles and Troilus . Protocorinthian aryballos . Athens ,. 26 THE TRADITION OF THE TROJAN WAR.
Jonathan S. Burgess. passage was not excerpted and passed along into the Iliad manuscripts . The reference was senseless after this Trojan War section of the summary was extracted from its original context ( the Chrestomathy ) and placed ...
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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 |