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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... poetry , Greek History and criticism . 3. Trojan War - Literature and the war . 4. Troy ( Extinct city ) -In literature . 5. Influence ( Literary , artistic , etc. ) 6. Literature and history - Greece . 7. Lost literature - Greece . 8 ...
... Ritual ac- tivity at Bronze Age sites and heroic poetry were probably two independ- ent manifestations of a fascination with previous ages . The epic verse tradition apparently developed in Asia Minor , 2 THE TRADITION OF THE TROJAN WAR.
... poetry . An influential schematic approach has portrayed the world of the Homeric poems as intensely for- eign to ... poetry as different from the myth and poetry of the Archaic Age depend on the early dating of the Homeric poems , which ...
... poetic tradition . Or certain material asso- ciated with a later 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 ...
... poetry about the Trojan War ( besides the Homeric poems ) , and so later ages relied on the Cycle as a source for the tradition . For these reasons the Trojan War poems in the Epic Cycle are cen- tral to our understanding of the story ...
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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 |