Homer's people : epic poetry and social formation

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Homer's people : epic poetry and social formation

Johannes Haubold

(Cambridge classical studies)

Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Cambridge University

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people. The investigation draws on a wide range of approaches from formulaic analysis to the study of early performance contexts. From a close reading of the Homeric epics, Homer's people emerge as a community without effective social structures. When this is viewed from the perspective of Homeric performances in the polis, a contrast between Homer's laoi and the founding people of ritual emerges. While the former typically perish, the survival of the latter is secured by the establishment of successful institutions.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. Laoi in early Greek hexameter poetry
  • 2. Homer's people
  • 3. Laos epic in performance
  • Appendix A. Epic formulae
  • Appendix B. Ritual formulae.

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