The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle / Jonathan S. Burgess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgess, Jonathan S., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer--Knowledge and learning--Troy (Extinct city).

Homer.

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Trojan War--Literature and the war.

Trojan War.

Troy (Extinct city)--In literature.

Troy (Extinct city).

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Literature and history--Greece.

Literature and history.

Greece.

Lost literature--Greece.

Lost literature.

Cycles (Literature).

Homer--Influence.

Physical Description:

xvi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of the Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age.

Contents:

1 The Epic Cycle and the Tradition of the Trojan War 7

Origins of the Cycle Poems

The Manufacture of the Epic Cycle

The "Cyclic" Tradition of the Trojan War

"Cyclic" Trojan War Images

Later Manifestations

2 Homer and the Tradition of the Trojan War 47

"Cyclic" Myth in the Homeric Poems

The Date of the Homeric Poems

Iliadic Images

Cyclops: Image and Folktale

Homeric Passages

3 The Epic Cycle and Homer 132

Cropping around the Homeric Poems

Extent of the Cycle Poems

Homeric Influence on the Epic Cycle?

Non-Homeric Aspects of the Epic Cycle

Appendix A Photius and Proclus 177

Appendix B Schematization of R. Cook's Tables 181

Appendix C Trojan War Images to 600 B.C.E. 183

Appendix D Blinding and Escape Images 188

Appendix E Select Epic Passages Featuring Leaves 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-277) and index.

ISBN:

0801866529

OCLC:

45137428