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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... Sometimes the contents of the Epic Cycle have been described as " late " or post - Homeric , but the uncertainties of that type of argument will be demonstrated in Chapter 3 . Other evidence leads to two extremes . Arctinus , the ...
... sometime in the Archaic Age and fixed in writing by the end of this 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 ...
... sometimes ascribed to Homer . But the tes- timonium of Aristotle might instead reflect the persistence of the common ( though not shared by Aristotle ) equation of Homer with the genre of epic poetry . The " cycle ” ( Kúkλos ) mentioned ...
... is essentially a summary of the Epic Cycle.51 A Dionysius of vari- ously attributed origin who lived in the Hellenistic period ( sometimes called Dionysius the Cyclograph ) is reported to have made a 16 THE TRADITION OF THE TROJAN WAR.
... sometimes varies from Proclus , which may be caused by the carelessness of their manufacture , but perhaps they are based on a dif- ferent summary , or even a different constitution of the Epic Cycle , for Stesi- chorus is cited for the ...
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