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The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle

Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of the Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age
eBook, English, 2001
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xvi, 295 pages) : illustrations
9780801874819, 0801874815
51494080
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote to ReaderList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Part I: The Epic Cycle and the Tradition of the Trojan WarChapter 1. Origins of the Cycle PoemsChapter 2. The Manufacture of the Epic CycleChapter 3. The "Cyclic" Tradition of the Trojan WarChapter 4. "Cyclic" Trojan War ImagesChapter 5. Later ManifestationsPart II: Homer and the Tradition of the Trojan WarChapter 6. "Cyclic" Myth in the Homeric PoemsChapter 7. The Date of the Homeric PoemsChapter 8. Iliadic ImagesChapter 9. Cyclops: Image and FolktaleChapter 10. Homeric PassagesPart III: The Epic Cycle and HomerChapter 11. Cropping Around the Homeric PoemsChapter 12. Extent of the Cycle PoemsChapter 13. Homeric Influence on the Epic Cycle?Chapter 14. Non-Homeric Aspects of the Epic CycleConclusionAppendix A: Photos and ProclusAppendix B: Schematization of R. Cook's TablesAppendix C: Trojan War Images to 600 B.C.E.Appendix D: Blinding and Escape ImagesAppendix E: Select Epic Passages Featuring LeavesNotesReferencesIndex
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English