The Telegony

Author : Christos Tsagalis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Jonathan S. Burgess
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801878909

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The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle by Jonathan S. Burgess Pdf

Presents a challenge to Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger context of the entire body of Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age.

Author : Anton Bierl,Menelaos Christopoulos,Athina Papachrysostomou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110535150

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Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture by Anton Bierl,Menelaos Christopoulos,Athina Papachrysostomou Pdf

From Homer to Sophocles and Greek Middle Comedy, and from Plato and Protagoras to Ovid, this volume features a panoramic and cross-generic overview of the diverse handling and ad hoc elaboration of the overarching literary notions of "time" and "space". The twenty-one contributions of this volume written by an international group of esteemed scholars provide an equal number of hermeneutic approaches to individual, distinct aspects of Greek and Latin literature. The volume is purposely designed not as a linear display of knowledge, but rather as an anthology of select paradigms that aim to demonstrate the multidimensional function and multifaceted role of the twin notions of "time" and "space" throughout ancient Greek and Latin literary texts. The volume opens with analyses of conspicuous cases from epic poetry, proceeds with examples from drama (tragedy and comedy), and concludes with diverse instances of chronotopes (empirical, imaginary, and even shifting ones), in various literary genres. The volume is of greatest relevance since it meets the cultural and theoretical trends of today’s Classics. It therefore will attract not only the interest of specialised Classicists but it is also intended for a wider general readership.

Author : E. A. S. Butterworth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110832617

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Some Traces of the Pre-Olympian World in Greek Literature and Myth by E. A. S. Butterworth Pdf

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Author : Albert Bates Lord,Stephen Arthur Mitchell,Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674002830

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The Singer of Tales by Albert Bates Lord,Stephen Arthur Mitchell,Gregory Nagy Pdf

Discusses the oral tradition as a theory of literary composition and its applications to Homeric and medieval epic.

Author : Andrea Ercolani,Laura Lulli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110751963

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Rethinking Orality II by Andrea Ercolani,Laura Lulli Pdf

This is the second volume on the mechanisms of oral communication in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry, a genre with deep roots in orality. Considering the critical debate about orality and its influence on the composition, diffusion and transmission of the archaic epic poems, the survey provides a reconsideration and a reassessment of the traces of orality in the archaic epic poetry, following their adaptation in the synchronic and diachronic changes of the communicative system. Combining the methods of cognitive science, and the historical and literary analysis of the texts, the research explores the complexity of the literary message of the Greek epic poetry, highlighting its position in a system of oral communication. The consideration of structural and formal aspects, i.e. the traces of orality in the narrative architecture, in the epic diction, in the meter and the formulaic system, as well as the vestiges of the mixture of orality and writing, allows to reconstruct a dynamic frame of communicative modalities which influenced and enriched the archaic epic poetry, providing it with expressive potentialities destined to a longlasting permanence in the history of the genre.

Author : Martin Steinrück
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 143310475X

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The Suitors in the Odyssey by Martin Steinrück Pdf

The suitors in the Odyssey strikingly resemble a very specific audience of iambic poets such as Archilochus or Semonides. Justifying these young men's deaths, the Odyssey engages in a polemic intertext with Archilochus' attacks against the threatening epic discourse. This study is concerned with reading both the traces of this often hidden quarrel in the Odyssey and the answers we can find within the iambic texts. Although iambus and epos have been connected in earlier studies, the direct portrait of the iambic audience within the Odyssey has not been examined. This book allows the reader to see these issues in the larger social context.

Author : Irad Malkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0520920260

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The Returns of Odysseus by Irad Malkin Pdf

This remarkably rich and multifaceted study of early Greek exploration makes an original contribution to current discussions of the encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks. Focusing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward after the Trojan War, Irad Malkin shows how these stories functioned to mediate encounters and conceptualize ethnicity and identity during the Archaic and Classical periods. Synthesizing a wide range of archaeological, mythological, and literary sources, this exceptionally learned book strengthens our understanding of early Greek exploration and city-founding along the coasts of the Western Mediterranean, reconceptualizes the role of myth in ancient societies, and revitalizes our understanding of ethnicity in antiquity. Malkin shows how the figure of Odysseus became a proto-colonial hero whose influence transcended the Greek-speaking world. The return-myths constituted a generative mythology, giving rise to oral poems, stories, iconographic imagery, rituals, historiographical interpretation, and the articulation of ethnic identities. Reassessing the role of Homer and alternative return-myths, the book argues for the active historical function of myth and collective representations and traces their changing roles through a spectrum of colonial perceptions—from the proto-colonial, through justifications of expansion and annexation, and up to decolonization.

Author : Christos Tsagalis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110532111

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Early Greek Epic Fragments I by Christos Tsagalis Pdf

This book offers a new edition and comprehensive commentary of the extant fragments of genealogical and antiquarian epic dating to the archaic period (8th-6th cent. BC). By means of a detailed study of the multifaceted material pertaining to the remains of archaic Greek epic other than Homer, Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymns, it provides readers with a critical reassessment of the ancient evidence, allows access to new material hitherto unnoticed or scattered in various journals after the publication of the three standard editions now available to us, and offers a full-scale commentary of the extant fragments. This book fills a gap in the study of archaic Greek poetry, since it offers a guiding tool for the further exploration of Greek epic tradition in the archaic period and beyond.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
ISBN : UOM:39015073296470

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Experiment Station Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Sire Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Arkansas River
ISBN : IND:30000091675110

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Acquirement of Water Rights in the Arkansas Valley in Colorado by Joseph Sire Greene Pdf

Author : National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Agricultural education
ISBN : MINN:31951D00246277G

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Proceedings of the Annual Convention by National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges Pdf

Author : Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. Annual Convention
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Agricultural education
ISBN : UCAL:B3417422

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Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations by Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. Annual Convention Pdf

Volume for 29th, 1915 includes the 4th: Land Grant College Engineering Association. Proceedings of the ... annual convention of the Land Grant College Engineering Association ... ; in 1915 the Land Grant College Engineering Association united with the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations.

Author : Hesiod
Publisher : Memorable Classics Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod Pdf

"Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod - Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded by Western authors as 'the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject.' Ancient authors credited Hesiod and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs. Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought, Archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time-keeping. Works and Days is a didactic poem written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. It is in dactylic hexameter and contains 828 lines. At its center, the Works and Days is a farmer's almanac in which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the agricultural arts. Scholars have seen this work against a background of agrarian crisis in mainland Greece, which inspired a wave of colonial expeditions in search of new land. In the poem, Hesiod also offers his brother extensive moralizing advice on how he should live his life. Works and Days is perhaps best known for its two mythological aetiologies for the toil and pain that define the human condition: the story of Prometheus and Pandora, and the so-called Myth of Five Ages. The Theogony is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 730–700 BC. It is written in the Epic dialect of Ancient Greek and contains 1022 lines. The Shield of Heracles is an archaic Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The subject of the poem is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly. The Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanized: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns are ""Homeric"" in the sense that they employ the same epic meter—dactylic hexameter—as the Iliad and Odyssey, use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect. While the modern scholarly consensus is that they were not written during the lifetime of Homer himself, they were uncritically attributed to him in antiquity—from the earliest written reference to them, Thucydides (iii.104)—and the label has stuck. ""The whole collection, as a collection, is Homeric in the only useful sense that can be put upon the word,"" A. W. Verrall noted in 1894, ""that is to say, it has come down labeled as 'Homer' from the earliest times of Greek book-literature."

Author : Paola Bassino,Lilah Grace Canevaro,Barbara Graziosi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107175747

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Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry by Paola Bassino,Lilah Grace Canevaro,Barbara Graziosi Pdf

A fresh and wide-ranging exploration across the whole of early Greek hexameter poetry, focusing on issues of poetics and metapoetics.