Homer
The Resonance of Epic
This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them as belonging to a much wider history of the divine cosmos, whose structures and themes are reflected in the resonant patterns of Homer's traditional language and narrative techniques. Part II illustrates this claim by looking at some central aspects of the Homeric poems: the gods and fate, gender an…
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Weitere Autoren: Haubold, Johannes
- ISBN: 978-1-84966-746-3
- EAN: 9781849667463
- Produktnummer: 17038401
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'003 KB
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Barbara Graziosi is Lecturer in Classics at Princeton University and the author of Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic (2002).
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