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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Burgess, Jonathan S., 1960- Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 (OCoLC)606603721 Online version: Burgess, Jonathan S., 1960- Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 (OCoLC)608483819 |
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| Named Person: | Homer; Homer; Homère; Homère; Homerus. |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jonathan S Burgess |
| ISBN: | 0801866529 9780801866524 |
| OCLC Number: | 45137428 |
| Description: | xvi, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The Epic Cycle and the Tradition of the Trojan War. Origins of the Cycle Poems. The Manufacture of the Epic Cycle. The "Cyclic" Tradition of the Trojan War. "Cyclic" Trojan War Images. Later Manifestation -- 2. Homer and the Tradition of the Trojan War. "Cyclic" Myth in the Homeric Poems. The Date of the Homeric Poems. Iliadic Images. Cyclops: Image and Folktale. Homeric Passages -- 3. The Epic Cycle and Homer. Cropping around the Homeric Poems. Extent of the Cycle Poems. Homeric Influence on the Epic Cycle? Non-Homeric Aspects of the Epic Cycle -- App. A. Photius and Proclus -- App. B. Schematization of R. Cook's Tables -- App. C. Trojan War Images to 600 B.C.E. -- App. D. Blinding and Escape Images -- App. E. Select Epic Passages Featuring Leaves. |
| Responsibility: | Jonathan S. Burgess. |
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A lively and venturesome study of the relationship between the Homeric epics and the largely lost Cyclic poems... A very interesting and accessible book. -- S. Douglas Olson Religious Studies Review This is a bracingly skeptical treatment of some important issues... A fresh, engaging exercise in heterodox scholarship. Greece and Rome [Jonathan Burgess] has firmly established the case that the Cyclic epics should be regarded as more authoritative representatives of Greek tradition about the Trojan War than the poems of Homer... Essential reading for everyone seriously interested in Homer and Greek epic tradition. -- Margalit Finkelberg Bryn Mawr Classical Review The Iliad and the Odyssey continue to be translated anew, and noticed when they are. Less widely noticed [is] other poetry about the Trojan War... The range and argument of the book make it valuable to any with an interest in what we call Homeric, and indeed, in ancient traditions generally. Virginia Quarterly Review Both the author's remarkable knowledge of previous scholarship on the topic and his eminently moderate and well-balanced approach make this volume a most valuable resource for approaching this complex field, and it immediately becomes indispensable for the study of Homeric and early non-Homeric epic. -- Mark W. Edwards Phoenix Anyone who has a serious interest in Homer and the Greek epic tradition should find this a valuable and thought-provoking book. -- Mike Chappell Journal of Classics Teaching 2005 A well argued book that packs a great deal of scholarship and insight into less than two-hundred pages. It deserves careful and repeated reading. -- D.M. Carter Polis 2010 Read more...
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Related Subjects:(27)
- Homer -- Knowledge -- Troy (Extinct city)
- Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
- Trojan War -- Literature and the war.
- Troy (Extinct city) -- In literature.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- To 1500.
- Literature and history -- Greece.
- Lost literature -- Greece.
- Cycles (Literature)
- Homer -- Influence.
- Homère -- Et Troie (Ville ancienne)
- Homère -- Influence.
- Poésie épique grecque -- Histoire et critique.
- Guerre de Troie -- Littérature et guerre.
- Influence littéraire, artistique, etc.
- Littérature et histoire -- Grèce.
- Œuvres perdues (Littérature) -- Grèce.
- Cycles (Littérature)
- Troie (Ville ancienne) dans la littérature.
- Trojaanse oorlog.
- Ilias (Homerus)
- Odyssea (Homerus)
- Epen.
- Grieks.
- Homerus. -- Ilias.
- Trojanischer Sagenkreis.
- Rezeption.
- Trojanischer Krieg.
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