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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... thought to be far superior in poetic quality . But a more historic approach would treasure any information that survives about non - Homeric epic.1 Such evidence informs us about mythological material missing or as- sumed in the Homeric ...
... thought and culture . Many scholars have rejected this as simplistic and misleading.12 In addition the " Oriental revolution " has been used as a wedge between the Homeric poems and the Archaic Age . Certainly swift developments in the ...
... thought that the Iliad and Odyssey became quickly dominant . Two con- sequences follow : no pure representative of the pre - Homeric tradition be- comes possible once Homer has muddied the waters , and any use of the preexisting ...
... thought to be composed by Homer . This suggests that authors were not known for the poems when they were ascribed to Homer . Perhaps the poems were not associated with any author at first , or perhaps the names of their traditional ...
... thought to prefigure the type of editorial activity that later led to its manufacture.41 But opportunity for rhapsodic " Cycles " would probably have waned as time went on , even at the Panathenaic festival . Undoubtedly the perform ...
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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 |