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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... Recent work has indicated a wider circuit for the city walls than pre- viously realized but will probably not reverse current skepticism about re- flections of the Bronze Age in Homer.4 Yet a historicist perspective remains valuable as ...
... recent " ) for them and other authors suggests , but his conception of the relation between the Homeric poems and the Epic Cycle was very naive.12 Sometimes the contents of the Epic Cycle have been described as " late " or post ...
... recently posited for the Homeric tradition by Nagy and others necessarily raises questions about the validity of attempting to pinpoint early epics to one point in time . It would be better to regard late forms , especially Atticisms ...
... recent editors of the fragments , Bernabe and Davies , follow different extreme positions on dating . This variance should underscore the need to avoid dogmatism on the matter . Most scholars ei- ther take an agnostic stance or vaguely ...
... Recent analysis of the division of books in the Homeric poems has em- phasized the frequency with which their ... recently championed by Davies.83 Severyns supposes that Proclus had summarized the full extent of the poems but that ...
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The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle Jonathan S. Burgess Limited preview - 2003 |