Nine essays on Homer
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Nine essays on Homer
（Greek studies）
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1999
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-235) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780847694235
Description
The essays in this collections address questions of intense interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; the ways in which epic incorporates material of diverse genres, such as women's laments, blame poetry, or folk tales; how the ideological balance of epic can change and be influenced by "alternative ideologies" introduced through the incorporation of new material; the implications of the continuity of tradition for etymological studies; and how the traditional nature of epic affects textual criticism. The essays differ in focus and method, but all share one fundamental approach to Homer: an understanding of the Homeric tradition as a poetic system that expresses and preserves what is culturally important and a view of the Homeric epics as instances of a cultural tradition which they attempt to explore through the epics themselves and through the comparative, anthropological, and linguistic evidence they bring to bear on these texts. A unique collection that explores Homeric poetry through a variety of tools and approaches-linguistics, philology, cultural anthropology, sociology, textual criticism, and archeology-this volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of oral poetry and Classical literature.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Part 3 Multigeneric Homer Chapter 4 The Wrath of Helen: Self-Blame and Nemesis in the Iliad Chapter 5 Odysseus and the Phaeacians Chapter 6 Thersites, Odysseus, and the Social Order Chapter 7 Homeric Fictions: Pseudo-words in Homer Part 8 Diachronic Homer Chapter 9 Penelope and the Penelops Chapter 10 Odysseus Back Home and Back from the Dead Part 11 Visual Homer Chapter 12 Artemis and the Lion: Two Similes in Odyssey 6 159 Chapter 13 Homer's Leopard Simile Part 14 Textual Homer Chapter 15 Homeros ekainopoese: Theseus, Aithra, and Variation in Homeric Myth-Making Chapter 16 Bibliography Chapter 17 Index of Homeric Passages Chapter 18 General Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780847694242
Description
The essays in this collection addresses questions of intense interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; the ways in which epic incorporates material of diverse genres, such as women's laments, blame poetry, or folk tales; how the ideological balance of epic can change and be influenced by 'alternative ideologies' introduced through the incorporation of new material; the implications of the continuity of tradition for etymological studies; and how the traditional nature of epic affects textual criticism. The essays differ in focus and method, but all share one fundamental approach to Homer: an understanding of the Homeric tradition as a poetic system that expresses and preserves what is culturally important and a view of the Homeric epics as instances of a cultural tradition which they attempt to explore through the epics themselves and through the comparative, anthropological, and linguistic evidence they bring to bear on these texts. A unique collection that explores Homeric poetry through a variety of tools and approaches-linguistics, philology, cultural anthropology, sociology, textual criticism, and archeology-this volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of oral poetry and Classical literature.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Part 3 Multigeneric Homer Chapter 4 The Wrath of Helen: Self-Blame and Nemesis in the Iliad Chapter 5 Odysseus and the Phaeacians Chapter 6 Thersites, Odysseus, and the Social Order Chapter 7 Homeric Fictions: Pseudo-words in Homer Part 8 Diachronic Homer Chapter 9 Penelope and the Penelops Chapter 10 Odysseus Back Home and Back from the Dead Part 11 Visual Homer Chapter 12 Artemis and the Lion: Two Similes in Odyssey 6 159 Chapter 13 Homer's Leopard Simile Part 14 Textual Homer Chapter 15 Homeros ekainopoese: Theseus, Aithra, and Variation in Homeric Myth-Making Chapter 16 Bibliography Chapter 17 Index of Homeric Passages Chapter 18 General Index
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