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Author : Cedric Hubbell Whitman
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : UCSC:32106005559700
Author : Cedric H. Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:476040339
Author : John Victor Luce
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000163644
How reliable is the tradition embodied in the Homeric poems? Their basic historicity was widely accepted in the ancient world: Thucydides and Plato used Homeric data in reconstructing early Greek history and territorial claims could be supported by reference to the epic traditions. Does research in more modern times support this view? Professor Luce examines in detail the world of Homer through the literary and archeological evidence. In the years since Schliemann's first soundings on the site of Troy, archeological investigations in Greek lands and on the Aegean coast of Turkey have been numerous and productive. The most important result of this activity has been the establishment of a tantalizingly cogent basis for the Greek heroic legends. In this most readable survey Professor Luce displays the evidence for and the interpretations of a truly golden Heroic Age. -- From publisher's description.
Author : Andrew Ford
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501734625
Andrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what it is for. Focusing on the critical moment in Western literature when the heroic tales of the Greek oral tradition began to be preserved in writing, he examines these questions in the light of Homeric poetry. Through fresh readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and referring to other early epics as well, Ford deepens our understanding of what poetry was at a time before written texts, before a developed sense of authorship, and before the existence of institutionalized criticism. Placing what is known about Homer's art in the wider context of Homer's world, Ford traces the effects of the oral tradition upon the development of the epic and addresses such issues as the sources of the poet's inspiration and the generic constraints upon epic composition. After exploring Homer's poetic vocabulary and his fictional and mythical representations of the art of singing, Ford reconstructs an idea of poetry much different from that put forth by previous interpreters. Arguing that Homer grounds his project in religious rather than literary or historical terms, he concludes that archaic poetry claims to give a uniquely transparent and immediate rendering of the past. Homer: The Poetry of the Past will be stimulating and enjoyable reading for anyone interested in the traditions of poetry, as well as for students and scholars in the fields of classics, literary theory and literary history, and intellectual history.
Author : Jeffrey Barnouw
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 076183026X
In dramatic representations and narrative reports of inner deliberation the Odyssey displays the workings of the human mind and its hero's practical intelligence, epitomized by anticipating consequences and controlling his actions accordingly. Once his hope of returning home as husband, father and king is renewed on Calypso's isle, Odysseus shows a consistent will to focus on this purpose and subordinate other impulses to it. His fabled cleverness is now fully engaged in a gradually emerging plan, as he thinks back from that final goal through a network of means to achieve it. He relies on "signs"--inferences in the form "if this, then that" as defined by the Stoic Chrysippus--and the nature of his intelligence is thematically underscored through contrast with others' recklessness, that is, failure to heed signs or reckon consequences. In Homeric deliberation, the mind is torn between competing options or intentions, not between "reason" and "desire." The lack of distinct opposing faculties and hierarchical organization in the Homeric mind, far from archaic simplicity, prefigures the psychology of Chrysippus, who cites deliberation scenes from the Odyssey against Plato's hierarchical tri-partite model. From the Stoics, there follows a psychological tradition leading through Hobbes and Leibniz, to Peirce and Dewey. These thinkers are drawn upon to show the significance of the conception of "thinking" first articulated in the Odyssey. Homer's work inaugurates an approach that has provoked philosophical conflict persisting into the present, and opposition to pragmatism and Pragmatism can be discerned in prominent critiques of Homer and his hero which are analyzed and countered in this study.
Author : G. S. Kirk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1976-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521213097
In this 1976 volume, Geoffrey Kirk considers the nature of oral and epic poetry, and the meaning of an oral tradition.
Author : Homer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547011156
The Iliad of Homer (1873) is an epic poem by Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by Achaeans, it tells of the battles and events during a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
Author : Linda Lee Clader
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 9004047212
Author : Robert Auty
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Epic poetry
ISBN : 0900547723
Author : Ruth Scodel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0472112651
DIVA discussion of how ancient Greek bards ensured that their poetry would reach audiences of various backgrounds /div
Author : Seth L. Schein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520341067
From the Preface:This book is addressed mainly to non-specialist readers who do not know Greek and who read, study, or teach the Iliad in translation; it also is meant for classical scholars whose professional specialization has prevented them from keeping abreast of recent work on Homer. It is grounded in technical scholarship, to which it constantly referes and is intended to contribute, and I hope that even Homeric specialists will find ideas and interpretations to interest them. I have tried to present clearly what seem to me the most valuable results of modern research and criticism of the Iliad while setting forth my own views. My goal has been to interpret the poem as much as possible on its own mythological, religious, ethical, and artistic terms. The topics and problems I focus on are those that have arisen most often and most insistently when I have thought the poem, in translation and in the original, as I have done every year since 1968. This book is a literary study of the Iliad. I have not discussed historical, archaeologoical, or even linguistic questions except where they are directly relevant to literary interpretation. Throughout I have emphasized what is thematically, ethically, and artistically distinctive in the Iliad in contrast to the conventions of the poetic tradition of which it is an end product.
Author : Margalit Finkelberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110671520
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.
Author : Douglas Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1120834774
Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780525520948
From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric studies." So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a "before" Parry and an "after." Kanigel describes the "before," when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930's, assumed that the Homeric epics were "written" texts, the way we think of most literature; and the "after" that we now live in, where we take it for granted that they are the result of a long and winding oral tradition. Parry made it his life's work to develop and prove this revolutionary theory, and Kanigel brilliantly tells his remarkable story--cut short by Parry's mysterious death by gunshot wound at the age of thirty-three. From UC Berkeley to the Sorbonne to Harvard to Yugoslavia--where he traveled to prove his idea definitively by studying its traditional singers of heroic poetry--we follow Parry on his idiosyncratic journey, observing just how his early notions blossomed into a full-fledged theory. Kanigel gives us an intimate portrait of Parry's marriage to Marian Thanhouser and their struggles as young parents in Paris, and explores the mystery surrounding Parry's tragic death at the Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. Tracing Parry's legacy to the modern day, Kanigel explores how what began as a way to understand the Homeric epics became the new field of "oral theory," which today illuminates everything from Beowulf to jazz improvisation, from the Old Testament to hip-hop.
Author : Barbara Pavlock
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781501746147
Barbara Pavlock here illuminates the significance of the erotic in the epic tradition from Alexandrian Greece to the late Renaissance by examining the transformations of two Homeric episodes, Odysseus' encounter with Nausikaa and the night-raid of Odysseus and Diomedes. In close readings of epics by Apollonius of Rhodes, Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, Ariosto, and Milton, Pavlock shows how these poets maintain the appearance of thematic continuity as they actually differentiate their own views on heroic values from those of their predecessors. Asserting that the erotic serves in the epic as a locus of criticism of social values, she traces adaptations in rhetorical devices, in larger structural patterns, and in major generic forms, as in the combination of tragic with epic models.