Relative Chronology In Early Greek Epic Poetry

Author : Øivind Andersen,Dag T. T. Haug
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107375772

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Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry by Øivind Andersen,Dag T. T. Haug Pdf

This book sets out to disentangle the complex chronology of early Greek epic poetry, which includes Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. The preserved corpus of these texts is characterized by a rather uniform language and many recurring themes, thus making the establishment of chronological priorities a difficult task. The editors have brought together scholars working on these texts from both a linguistic and a literary perspective to address the problem. Some contributions offer statistical analysis of the linguistic material or linguistic analysis of subgenres within epic, others use a neoanalytical approach to the history of epic themes or otherwise seek to track the development and interrelationship of epic contents. All the contributors focus on the implications of their study for the dating of early epic poems relative to each other. Thus the book offers an overview of the current state of discussion.

Author : Christos Tsagalis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110767605

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Early Greek Epic Fragments II by Christos Tsagalis Pdf

This is a full-scale edition with commentary of the archaic epic poems Oichalias Halosis by Kreophylos of Samos and Herakleia by Peisandros of Kamiros. The Greek text (divided between testimonies and fragments) is accompanied by detailed critical apparatus and English translation. There are also extensive introductions to the biography of each poet, the title of the poem, its content and style, as well as a careful examination of the relative chronology of each epic. The detailed commentary of every fragment offers an up-to-date examination of all the extant material that has come down to us through a rich indirect tradition. This is the second installment of the project Early Greek Epic Poets (vol. I: Genealogical and Antiquarian Epic, De Gruyter 2017), which aims to enhance the study of Greek epic poetry of the archaic and classical period by means of providing readers with authoritative editions and commentaries of a significant part of fragmentary early Greek epic.

Author : Øivind Andersen,Dag T. T. Haug
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521194976

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Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry by Øivind Andersen,Dag T. T. Haug Pdf

This book investigates the relative chronology of early Greek poetry through linguistic and literary analyses of the texts themselves.

Author : Christos Tsagalis
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110767562

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Early Greek Epic Fragments II by Christos Tsagalis Pdf

This volume is a full-scale edition with commentary of the archaic epic poems Oichalias Halosis by Kreophylos of Samos and Herakleia by Peisandros of Kamiros. It offers extensive introductions to the biography of each poet and their poems, as well a

Author : Hermann Fränkel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : OCLC:45548297

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Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy by Hermann Fränkel Pdf

Author : Christos Tsagalis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110981384

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Early Greek Epic: Language, Interpretation, Performance by Christos Tsagalis Pdf

In the last fifty years major developments have taken place, both in the field of Homeric studies and in the rest of early Greek epic. These developments have not only created a more solid basis for studying the Homeric epics, but they have also broadened our horizons with respect to the place of Homeric poetry within a larger cultural milieu. The impressive advances in Hesiodic studies, the more systematic approach to the Epic Cycle, the more nuanced use and re-evaluation of dominant twentieth-century theories like Neoanalysis and Oral Theory, the study of other fragmentary Greek epic, the cognitive turn, narratology, the performance of epic poetry in the ancient and modern world, the fruitful utilization of Indo-European material, and the widely accepted recognition of the close relation between Homer and the mythology and literature of the ancient Near East have virtually shaped anew the way we read and understand Homer, Hesiod, and early Greek epic. The studies collected in this volume are informed by most of the aforementioned sub-fields and span four research areas: (i) Homer; (ii) Hesiod; (iii) the Epic Cycle; (d) the performance of epic.

Author : Christos Tsagalis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110767643

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Early Greek Epic Fragments II by Christos Tsagalis Pdf

This is a full-scale edition with commentary of the archaic epic poems Oichalias Halosis by Kreophylos of Samos and Herakleia by Peisandros of Kamiros. The Greek text (divided between testimonies and fragments) is accompanied by detailed critical apparatus and English translation. There are also extensive introductions to the biography of each poet, the title of the poem, its content and style, as well as a careful examination of the relative chronology of each epic. The detailed commentary of every fragment offers an up-to-date examination of all the extant material that has come down to us through a rich indirect tradition. This is the second installment of the project Early Greek Epic Poets (vol. I: Genealogical and Antiquarian Epic, De Gruyter 2017), which aims to enhance the study of Greek epic poetry of the archaic and classical period by means of providing readers with authoritative editions and commentaries of a significant part of fragmentary early Greek epic.

Author : William G. Thalmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Greek poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106014573783

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Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry by William G. Thalmann Pdf

Author : Margalit Finkelberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110671452

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Homer and Early Greek Epic by Margalit Finkelberg Pdf

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 : Charles H. Stocking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781107164260

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The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry by Charles H. Stocking Pdf

A new interpretation of sacrifice based on Greek myth and poetics in conjunction with recent research in anthropology.

Author : Jonathan J. Price,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429656354

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Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama by Jonathan J. Price,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz Pdf

This collection presents 19 interconnected studies on the language, history, exegesis, and cultural setting of Greek epic and dramatic poetic texts ("Text") and their afterlives ("Intertext") in Antiquity. Spanning texts from Hittite archives to Homer to Greek tragedy and comedy to Vergil to Celsus, the studies here were all written by friends and colleagues of Margalit Finkelberg who are experts in their particular fields, and who have all been influenced by her work. The papers offer close readings of individual lines and discussion of widespread cultural phenomena. Readers will encounter Hittite precedents to the Homeric poems, characters in ancient epic analysed by modern cognitive theory, the use of Homer in Christian polemic, tragic themes of love and murder, a history of the Sphinx, and more. Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama offers a selection of fascinating essays exploring Greek epic, drama, and their reception and adaption by other ancient authors, and will be of interest to anyone working on Greek literature.

Author : Philomen Probert
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191022944

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Early Greek Relative Clauses by Philomen Probert Pdf

Early Greek Relative Clauses contributes to an old debate currently enjoying a revival: should we expect languages spoken a few thousand years ago, such as Proto-Indo-European, to be less well-equipped than modern languages when it comes to subordinate clauses? Early Greek relative clauses provide a test case for this problem. Early Greek uses several kinds of relative clause, but all these are usually thought to come from one, or at most two, prehistoric types. In a new look at the evidence, this book finds that a rich variety of relative clause types has been in place for a considerable time. The reconstruction of prehistoric linguistic stages requires detailed work on the individual languages descending from them. A substantial part of the book is therefore devoted to a new look at the relative clause systems found in a wide variety of early Greek texts. It emerges that the same basic system is in use across all these texts. Different kinds of relative clause predominate in different kinds of text, however, because relative clause syntax and semantics interact with the needs of different kinds of text. Considering material as diverse as the Homeric poems, laws inscribed in stone on the island of Crete, and the philosophical prose of Heraclitus, the discussion remains clear and straightforward as Probert considers the uses and histories of different relative clause types.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004696617

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Heracles in Early Greek Epic by Anonim Pdf

Heracles in Early Greek Epic examines the protean nature of the greatest Greek hero, Heracles in Homeric and Hesiodic poetry, as well as in fragmentary epics such as Creophylus’ Oichalias Halosis, Pisander’s Heracleia, and Panyassis’ Heracleia. Several contributors explore Heracles’ associations with heroes in Near-Eastern literature and reflections in early epic about his involvement in the first sack of Troy, the tale of Hesione and the ketos, the war against the Meropes on Cos, and the sack of Oechalia. Other contributors study his role in other Archaic and Classical epics such as those written by Creophylus, Pisander, and Panyassis.

Author : Walter Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191078910

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A History of European Literature by Walter Cohen Pdf

Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and by the ties of European literature to world literature. World literature is marked by recurrent, systematic features, outcomes of the way that language and literature are at once the products of major change and its agents. Cohen tracks these features from ancient times to the present, distinguishing five main overlapping stages. Within that framework, he shows that European literatures ongoing internal and external relationships are most visible at the level of form rather than of thematic statement or mimetic representation. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe — during antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of Afro-Eurasia. This legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The uniqueness of the process lies in the gradual displacement of the learned language by the vernacular, long dominated by Romance literatures. That development subsequently informs the second crucial differentiating dimension of European literature: the multicontinental expansion of its languages and characteristic genres, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately results in the reintegration of European literature into world literature and thus in the creation of todays global literary system. The distinctiveness of European literature is to be found in these interrelated trajectories.

Author : Alexander Loney,Stephen Scully
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780190209049

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The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod by Alexander Loney,Stephen Scully Pdf

This volume brings together 29 junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod's poetry and its milieu and to explore questions of reception over two and half millennia from shortly after the poems' conception to Twitter hashtags. Rather than an exhaustive study of Hesiodic themes, the Handbook is conceived as a guide through terrain, some familiar, other less charted, examining both Hesiodic craft and later engagements with Hesiod's stories of the gods and moralizing proscriptions of just human behavior. The volume opens with the "Hesiodic Question," to address questions of authorship, historicity, and the nature of composition of Hesiod's two major poems, the Theogony and Works and Days. Subsequent chapters on the archaeology and economic history of archaic Boiotia, Indo-European poetics, and Hesiodic style offer a critical picture of the sorts of questions that have been asked rather than an attempt to resolve debate. Other chapters discuss Hesiod's particular rendering of the supernatural and the performative nature of the Works and Days, as well as competing diachronic and synchronic temporalities and varying portrayals of female in the two poems. The rich story of reception ranges from Solon to comic books. These chapters continue to explore the nature of Hesiod's poetics, as different writers through time single out new aspects of his art less evident to earlier readers. Long before the advent of Christianity, classical writers leveled their criticism at Hesiod's version of polytheism. The relative importance of Hesiod's two major poems across time also tells us a tale of the age receiving the poems. In the past two centuries, artists and writers have come to embrace the Hesiodic stories for themselves for the insight they offer of the human condition but even as old allegory looks quaint to modern eyes new forms of allegory take form.