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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... traditions became identifiably distinct from the larger tradition . Pre - Iliadic is used similarly and does not refer to mythological events leading up to the story of the Iliad . Non - Homeric ( as in the title of Burgess 1996 ) ...
... traditions from which they came . But too often scholars seek to prove their love of the Homeric poems by ignoring or denigrating the tra- ditions behind them . The tradition of the Trojan War had a long and complex development before ...
... tradition of the Trojan War could not exclusively belong to bards.16 Epic verse would have played a major role in spreading and preserving traditional stories , but surely these stories did not depend on bardic performances . Other ...
... tradition would pre- serve details of myth and culture that seem earlier than those found in the textual manifestation of another poetic tradition . Or certain material asso- ciated with a later period might be found in one poem but not ...
Jonathan S. Burgess. mythological tradition was not great in the Archaic Age , although this is routinely assumed . Whether individual or tradition , Homer has been overemphasized at the risk of losing sight of the larger mythological ...
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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 |