Homer and Early Greek Epic
Title | Homer and Early Greek Epic PDF eBook |
Author | Margalit Finkelberg |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2019-12-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 311067145X |
This collection includes thirty scholarly essays on Homer and Greek epic poetry published by Margalit Finkelberg over the past three decades. The topics discussed reflect the author’s research interests and represent the main directions of her contribution to Homeric studies: Homer's language and diction, archaic Greek epic tradition, Homer's world and values, transmission and reception of the Homeric poems. The book gives special emphasis to some of the central issues in contemporary Homeric scholarship, such as oral-formulaic theory and the role of the individual poet; Neoanalysis and the character of the relationship between Homer and the tradition about the Trojan War; the multi-layered texture of the Homeric poems; the Homeric Question; the canonic status of the Iliad and the Odyssey in antiquity and modernity. All the articles are revised and updated. The book addresses both scholars and advanced students of Classics, as well as non-specialists interested in the Homeric poems and their journey through centuries.
Homer's Winged Words
Title | Homer's Winged Words PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Reece |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 429 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004174419 |
For over 2500 years many of the most learned scholars of the Greek language have concerned themselves with the topic of etymology. The most productive source of difficult, even inexplicable, words was Homer s 28,000 verses of epic poetry. Steve Reece proposes an approach to elucidating the meanings of some of these difficult words that finds its inspiration primarily in Milman Parry s oral-formulaic theory. He proposes that during the long period of oral transmission acoustic uncertainties, especially regarding word boundaries, were continually occurring: a bard uttered one collocation of words, but his audience thought it heard another. The consequent resegmentation of words and phrases is the probable cause of some of the etymologically inexplicable words in our Homeric texts.
From Hittite to Homer
Title | From Hittite to Homer PDF eBook |
Author | Mary R. Bachvarova |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 691 |
Release | 2016-03-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521509793 |
This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.
Homer's Original Genius
Title | Homer's Original Genius PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsti Simonsuuri |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1979-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521221986 |
The querelle des anciens et des modernes - the question whether writers should imitate the classics or use literary forms which seemed more suited to their own era - had been debated in Europe since the earliest days of the Renaissance. This book analyses the development of the querelle following the adoption of the argument of the modernist faction of seventeenth-century France.
The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle
Title | The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan S. Burgess |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2003-04-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0801874815 |
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.
Homer
Title | Homer PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Graziosi |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2005-03-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0715632825 |
Offers interpretations of the main aspects of Homeric epic: the gods and fate, gender and society, death, fame, and poetry
The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs
Title | The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs PDF eBook |
Author | Fritz-Heiner Mutschler |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 509 |
Release | 2018-12-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1527523799 |
The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life, and thus exercised a lasting influence on both civilizations. This volume presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora. Part One analyzes their genesis and their reception, while Part Two discusses their characteristics as poetic creations. The book brings together Chinese and Western sinologists and classicists, and so promotes significant interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. Though the contributors rank among the leading experts in their fields, the essays here are accessible not only to their peers, but also to the interested ‘general reader’, and so to all those who seek a deeper understanding of Chinese and Western civilizations, their common human basis and their characteristic differences.