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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... probably not reverse current skepticism about re- flections of the Bronze Age in Homer.4 Yet a historicist perspective remains valuable as long as one allows that inspiration for the story may have been more complex than the sack of a ...
... probably were within the Archaic Age , then they necessarily would reflect the same general mythological material . There is no " early " version of the Trojan War on which the Homeric poems are based , as opposed to a " later " version ...
... probably not of a very early date , because they were undoubtedly too long to record easily . I assume that the Cyclic poems were " crystallized " in performance traditions sometime in the Archaic Age and fixed in writing by the end of ...
... probably have been recorded by the beginning of the Classical Age . At first the recording and survival of epic poems about the Trojan War would have had less to do with their intrinsic poetic value than with circumstantial factors ...
... probably the Iliad and Odyssey.37 Well into the Classical Age , however , " Homer " often meant epic poetry in general ( see Chapter 2 ) . Would performance of epic poetry at the Panathenaea ( which I think is the extent of the ...
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The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle Jonathan S. Burgess Limited preview - 2004 |
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