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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... period . Whatever its origins , the story of the Trojan War took on a life of its own and soon de- veloped its own mythological functions . The post - Mycenaean period was never really a " Dark Age " nor was the eighth century B.c.e. a ...
... period might be found in one poem but not another . But the dating of material 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 ...
... period , I also stress that many different stages of the material in the Epic Cycle preceded this occurrence , and many different forms of the Epic Cycle followed it . In a sense the Epic Cycle was a moving target . Origins of the Cycle ...
... period of time in the Archaic Age . Such a circumstance for poetic composition not only defies precise dat- ing but also challenges the need for it . The paucity of fragments of the Cycle poems makes it difficult to discover evidence of ...
... period.28 The Manufacture of the Epic Cycle Besides meager fragments , we possess the Trojan War section of a sum- mary of the Epic Cycle . This summary of the Epic Cycle was included in a large work by Proclus about ancient poetry and ...
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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 |