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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... summary of the Epic Cycle that we possess , indicating that the process of manufacturing the Epic Cycle involved editorial manipulation of the Cyclic poems . Although I argue that the Epic Cycle was established during the Hellenistic ...
... summary of the Trojan War section of the Epic Cycle . A long and complicated process led to the summary by Proclus , which does not al- ways accurately represent the earlier fixations of the poems that constitute the Epic Cycle ...
... summary of the Epic Cycle by Proclus merely mentions where the Homeric poems fit in without trying to sum- marize them ) . We do not have any remarks in the scholia about a " Cyclic " edition of the Iliad , but such might be suggested ...
... summary of mythic material , 52 and a Pisander who apparently lived in the third cen- tury C.e. reportedly created a mythological summary in verse that success- fully rivaled the Epic Cycle.53 A papyrus fragment contains a summary of ...
... summary of this Epic Cycle . Then the Trojan War section of this summary was excerpted and used in the manuscript tra- dition of the Iliad . The process of making the Epic Cycle produced discrepancies between earlier versions of the ...
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