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Author : William C. Scott
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611682298
An examination of the aesthetic qualities of the Homeric simile
Author : Jonathan L. Ready
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198802556
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 : William C. Scott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004327375
Author : William Clyde Scott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004037896
Author : Marie Louise von Glinski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781139504201
Nulli sua forma manebat. The world of Ovid's Metamorphoses is marked by constant flux in which nothing keeps its original form. This book argues that Ovid uses the epic simile to capture states of unresolved identity - in the transition between human, animal and divine identity, as well as in the poem's textual ambivalence between genres and the negotiation of fiction and reality. In conjuring up a likeness, the mental image of the simile enters a dialectic of appearances in a visually complex and treacherous universe. Original and subtle close readings of episodes in the poem, from Narcissus to Adonis, from Diana's blush to the freeform dreams in the House of Sleep, trace the simile's potential for exploiting indeterminacy and immateriality. In its protean permutations the simile touches on the most profound issues of the poem - the nature of humanity and divinity and the essence of poetic creation.
Author : Bruno Currie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191081491
What kind of allusion is possible in a poetry derived from a centuries-long oral tradition, and what kind of oral-derived poetry are the Homeric epics? Comparison of Homeric epic with South Slavic heroic song has suggested certain types of answers to these questions, yet the South Slavic paradigm is neither straightforward in itself nor necessarily the only pertinent paradigm: Augustan Latin poetry uses many sophisticated and highly self-conscious techniques of allusion which can, this book contends, be suggestively paralleled in Homeric epic, and some of the same techniques of allusion can be found in Near Eastern poetry of the third and second millennia BC. By attending to these various paradigms, this challenging study argues for a new understanding of Homeric allusion and its place in literary history, broaching the question of whether there can have been historical continuity in a poetics of allusion stretching from the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh, via the Iliad and Odyssey, to the Aeneid and Metamorphoses, despite the enormous disparities of time and place and of language and culture, including those represented by the cuneiform tablet, the papyrus roll, and by an oral performance culture. The fundamental methodological problems are explored through a series of interlocking case studies, treating of how the Odyssey conceivably alludes to the Iliad and also to earlier poetry on Odysseus' homecoming, the Iliad to earlier poetry on the Ethiopian hero Memnon, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter to earlier poetry on Hades' abduction of Persephone, and early Greek epic to Mesopotamian mythological poetry, pre-eminently the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh.
Author : Homer
Publisher : London : Longmans
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : UOM:39015019077844
Author : Richard Garner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317694724
The role of poetic allusion in classical Greek poetry, to Homer especially, has often largely been neglected or even almost totally ignored. This book, first published in 1990, clarifies the place of Homer in Greek education, as well as adding to the interpretation of many important tragedies. Focussing on the dramatic masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and how these writers imitated and alluded to other poetry, the author reveals the immense dependence on Homer which can be seen throughout the corpus of Attic tragedy. It is argued that the practice of the art of allusion indicates certain conventions in fifth-century Athenian education, and perhaps also suggests something in the way of public, political, and historical self-awareness. Invaluable to anyone interested in the reception of Homer in the classical age, and to students of comparative literature and linguistic theory.
Author : Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 080149401X
This handsomely illustrated book offers a broad synthesis of Archaic Greek culture. Unlike other books dealing with the art and architecture of the Archaic period, it places these subjects in their historical, social, literary, and intellectual contexts. Origins and originality constitute a central theme, for during this period representational and narrative art, monumental sculpture and architecture, epic, lyric, and dramatic poetry, the city-state (polis), tyranny and early democracy, and natural philosophy were all born.
Author : Carroll Moulton
Publisher : Vandehoeck & Rupprecht
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036829179
Author : Alice Oswald
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571274178
Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story, and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief 'biographies' of the minor war-dead, most of whom are little more than names, but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably - and unforgotten - in the copiousness of Homer's glance. 'The Iliad is an oral poem. This translation presents it as an attempt - in the aftermath of the Trojan War - to remember people's names and lives without the use of writing. I hope it will have its own coherence as a series of memories and similes laid side by side: an antiphonal account of man in his world... compatible with the spirit of oral poetry, which was never stable but always adapting itself to a new audience, as if its language, unlike written language, was still alive and kicking.' - Alice Oswald
Author : Deborah Beck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108639774
Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual characters, happenings, and experiences, such as the shepherd and his flocks, a storm at sea, or predators hunting prey. The simile world that complements the epic mythological story is re-imagined afresh in relation to the themes of each epic poem. As Deborah Beck argues in this stimulating book, over time a simile world takes shape across many poems composed over many centuries. This evolving landscape resembles the epic story world of battles, voyages, and heroes that comes into being through relationships among different epic poems. Epic narrative is woven from a warp of the mythological story world and a weft of the simile world. They are partners in creating the fabric of epic poetry.
Author : Homer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107067776
Presents an edition of this outstanding book containing a clear and readable introduction, concise notes on the text and strong literary appreciation.
Author : Kostas Myrsiades
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684484508
We still read Homer’s epic the Iliad two-and-one-half millennia since its emergence for the questions it poses and the answers it provides for our age, as viable today as they were in Homer’s own times. What is worth dying for? What is the meaning of honor and fame? What are the consequences of intense emotion and violence? What does recognition of one’s mortality teach? We also turn to Homer’s Iliad in the twenty-first century for the poet’s preoccupation with the essence of human life. His emphasis on human understanding of mortality, his celebration of the human mind, and his focus on human striving after consciousness and identity has led audiences to this epic generation after generation. This study is a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s 24 parts, meant to inform students new to the work. Endnotes clarify and elaborate on myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the Iliad, in addition to bibliographies accompanying each book’s commentary.
Author : Baukje van den Berg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192865434
Homer the Rhetorician is the first monograph study devoted to the monumental Commentary on the Iliad by Eustathios of Thessalonike, one of the most renowned orators and teachers of the Byzantine twelfth century. Homeric poetry was a fixture in the Byzantine educational curriculum and enjoyed special popularity under the Komnenian emperors. For Eustathios, Homer was the supreme paradigm of eloquence and wisdom. Writing for an audience of aspiring or practising prose writers, he explains in his commentary what it is that makes Homer's composition so successful in rhetorical terms. This study explores the exemplary qualities that Eustathios recognizes in the poet as author and the Iliad as rhetorical masterpiece. In this way, it advances our understanding of the rhetorical thought of a leading intellectual and the role of a cultural authority as respected as Homer in one of the most fertile periods in Byzantine literary history.