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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... texts are derived makes the exact dating of them illusionary . In any event obtaining precise dates for the Homeric and Cyclic poems , even if possible , would be largely irrelevant . The Homeric and Cyclic poetic tradi- tions belong to ...
... texts as evidence for pre - Homeric traditions . But the initial influence of the Homeric poems has been more assumed than proved . These poems were not at first published as texts to be passed around a reading public . And a Homeric ...
... texts after long oral traditions . In fact , it seems that this stage was not the last . It should first be realized that the poems we find in the Epic Cycle were not the only ones of their type in the Archaic Age . Evidence from ...
... texts in the Middle Ages . Somehow some poems about the Trojan War became recorded . The poems of the Epic Cycle , for instance , would probably have been recorded by the beginning of the Classical Age . At first the recording and ...
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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 |