Homeric Contexts

Author : Franco Montanari,Antonios Rengakos,Christos C. Tsagalis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110272017

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Homeric Contexts by Franco Montanari,Antonios Rengakos,Christos C. Tsagalis Pdf

This volume aims at offering a critical reassessment of the progress made in Homeric research in recent years, focussing on its two main trends, Neonalysis and Oral Theory. Interpreting Homer in the 21st century asks for a holistic approach that allows us to reconsider some of our methodological tools and preconceptions concerning what we call Homeric poetry. The neoanalytical and oral 'booms', which have to a large extent influenced the way we see Homer today, may be re-evaluated if we are willing to endorse a more flexible approach to certain scholarly taboos pertaining to these two schools of interpretation. Song-traditions, formula, performance, multiformity on the one hand, and Motivforschung, Epic Cycle on the other, may not be so incompatible as we often tend to think.

Author : Athanasios Efstathiou,Ioanna Karamanou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110479799

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Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts by Athanasios Efstathiou,Ioanna Karamanou Pdf

This collective volume provides a fresh perspective on Homeric reception through a methodologically focused, interdisciplinary investigation of the transformations of Homeric epic within varying generic and cultural contexts. It explores how various aspects of Homeric poetics appeal and can be mapped on to a diversity of contexts under different socio-historical, intellectual, literary and artistic conditions. The volume brings together internationally acclaimed scholars and acute young researchers in the fields of classics and reception studies, yielding insight into the varied strategies and ideological forces that define Homeric reception in literature, scholarship and the performing arts (theatre, film and music) and shape the ‘horizon of expectations’ of readers and audience. This collection also showcases that the wide-ranging ‘migration’ of Homeric material through time and across place holds significant cultural power, being instrumental in the construction of new cultural identities. The volume is of particular interest to scholars in the fields of classics, reception and cultural studies and the performing arts, as well as to readers fascinated by ancient literature and its cultural transformations.

Author : Franco Montanari,Antonios Rengakos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:794546252

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Homeric Contexts by Franco Montanari,Antonios Rengakos Pdf

This volume addresses questions concerning Neoanalysis and Oral theory, the two most fruitful schools of thought in Homeric criticism. It explores the development of Greek myth with respect to the Trojan war; the signs of heroic cult in Homeric poetry; the function of memory; the relation between the catalogue of ships and the Iliadic narrative; the tragedy of Achilles; the travels of Odysseus; the Telemachy and the Nostoi, the false tales and Crete; the imagery of Odyssean similes; language and formulas; the Epic Cycle; Hesiod and Homer; the epic of Alpamysh; the Iliad and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292778759

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Homeric Responses by Gregory Nagy Pdf

The Homeric Iliad and Odyssey are among the world's foremost epics. Yet, millennia after their composition, basic questions remain about them. Who was Homer—a real or an ideal poet? When were the poems composed—at a single point in time, or over centuries of composition and performance? And how were the poems committed to writing? These uncertainties have been known as The Homeric Question, and many scholars, including Gregory Nagy, have sought to solve it. In Homeric Responses, Nagy presents a series of essays that further elaborate his theories regarding the oral composition and evolution of the Homeric epics. Building on his previous work in Homeric Questions and Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond and responding to some of his critics, he examines such issues as the importance of performance and the interaction between audience and poet in shaping the poetry; the role of the rhapsode (the performer of the poems) in the composition and transmission of the poetry; the "irreversible mistakes" and cross-references in the Iliad and Odyssey as evidences of artistic creativity; and the Iliadic description of the shield of Achilles as a pointer to the world outside the poem, the polis of the audience.

Author : Jonathan L. Ready
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198802556

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The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives by Jonathan L. Ready Pdf

Presenting a new take on what made the Homeric epics such successful examples of verbal artistry, this volume explores the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from the neglected comparative perspectives offered by the study of modern-day oral traditions

Author : Christos Tsagalis,Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110559873

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The winnowing oar - New Perspectives in Homeric Studies by Christos Tsagalis,Andreas Markantonatos Pdf

In the wake of recent advances in the treatment of longstanding problems pertaining to the interpretation of Homeric poetry, this volume brings together cutting-edge research from a cohort of acclaimed scholars on Homer and the Homeric Hymns. The variety of topics covered spans the entire field of Homeric philology: the methods and solutions provided for a new edition of the Odyssey, the puzzle of the relation between the festival of the Panathenaea and the Homeric text, the disclosure of the meaning of notorious cruces pertaining to arcane formulas, the two emblematic heroes of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Achilles and Odysseus, Homeric poetics, the range and use of repetition in a traditional medium, the composition of the Homeric epics, the Apologoi and 'Cyclic' Narrative, as well as the Homeric Hymns to Hermes and Aphrodite.

Author : Mark David Usher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0847690504

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Homeric Stitchings by Mark David Usher Pdf

Homeric Stitchings is the first extended study of the Homeric Centos, a long pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudocia using only verses from the Iliad and the Odyssey. Building upon recent work on Homeric poetics, and utilizing linguistic and semiotic methods of analysis, this study introduces readers to the Centos as a sophisticated comparative reading of Homer and the Bible, based upon intertextual associations of ideas, words, and sounds. Homeric Stitchings is a study in the performative aspects of ancient reading, the processes of human memory, and the reception of Homeric poetry as oral poetry in later antiquity. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Homer, the Bible and comparative literature, and cultural historians.

Author : Elizabeth Minchin,Senior Lecturer in Classics Elizabeth Minchin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199280126

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Homeric Voices by Elizabeth Minchin,Senior Lecturer in Classics Elizabeth Minchin Pdf

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Author : Maren R. Niehoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139501019

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Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria by Maren R. Niehoff Pdf

Systematically reading Jewish exegesis in light of Homeric scholarship, this book argues that more than 2000 years ago Alexandrian Jews developed critical and literary methods of Bible interpretation which are still extremely relevant today. Maren R. Niehoff provides a detailed analysis of Alexandrian Bible interpretation, from the second century BCE through newly discovered fragments to the exegetical work done by Philo. Niehoff shows that Alexandrian Jews responded in a great variety of ways to the Homeric scholarship developed at the Museum. Some Jewish scholars used the methods of their Greek colleagues to investigate whether their Scripture contained myths shared by other nations, while others insisted that significant differences existed between Judaism and other cultures. This book is vital for any student of ancient Judaism, early Christianity and Hellenistic culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110695823

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More than Homer Knew - Studies on Homer and His Ancient Commentators by Anonim Pdf

This book contains a collection of twenty-one essays in honour of Professor Franco Montanari by eminent specialists on Homer, ancient Homeric scholarship, and the reception of the Homeric Epics in both ancient and modern times. It covers a wide range of important subjects, including neoanalysis and oral poetry, the Doloneia, the Homeric scholia, the theoretical premises of Aristarchean scholarship, and Homer in Sappho, Pindar, Comedy, Plato, and Hellenistic Poetry. As a whole, the contributions demonstrate the vitality of modern scholarship on Homeric poetry.

Author : Susan Sherratt,John Bennett
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785702969

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Archaeology and the Homeric Epic by Susan Sherratt,John Bennett Pdf

The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and outright rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable of contributing anything at all to our understanding and appreciation of the epics. Archaeology and the Homeric Epic concentrates less on historicity in favor of exploring a variety of other, perhaps sometimes more oblique, ways in which we can use a multidisciplinary approach – archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history – to help offer insights into the epics, the contexts of their possibly prolonged creation, aspects of their 'prehistory', and what they may have stood for at various times in their long oral and written history. The effects of the Homeric epics on the history and popular reception of archaeology, especially in the particular context of modern Germany, is also a theme that is explored here. Contributors explore a variety of issues including the relationships between visual and verbal imagery, the social contexts of epic (or sub-epic) creation or re-creation, the roles of bards and their relationships to different types of patrons and audiences, the construction and uses of 'history' as traceable through both epic and archaeology and the relationship between 'prehistoric' (oral) and 'historical' (recorded in writing) periods. Throughout, the emphasis is on context and its relevance to the creation, transmission, re-creation and manipulation of epic in the present (or near-present) as well as in the ancient Greek past.

Author : Homerus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521451581

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Three Homeric Hymns by Homerus Pdf

This book is specifically designed for upper-level students of these major narrative works of early Greek poetry.

Author : Albert Rijksbaron,Irene de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047417422

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Sophocles and the Greek Language by Albert Rijksbaron,Irene de Jong Pdf

This volume offers an overview of the ways in which Sophocles’ use of the Greek language is currently being studied. The book is divided into three sections, which deal with aspects of diction, syntax, and pragmatics.

Author : Magdalene Stoevesandt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501501760

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Homer’s Iliad by Magdalene Stoevesandt Pdf

This commentary on the 6th book of the Iliad concentrates on the interpretation of two episodes which have received a great deal of scholarly attention: the encounter between Diomedes and Glaukos, which surprisingly ends with an exchange of weapons and not a duel, and the series of scenes ‘Hector in Troy’, which reveal the hero’s conflicting roles as defender of the city and father of his family.

Author : Irene J. F. de Jong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Civilization, Homeric
ISBN : 0415145295

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Homer: The Homeric world by Irene J. F. de Jong Pdf