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):

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Trojan War--Literature and the war.

Trojan War.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Literature and history--Greece.

Literature and history.

Lost literature--Greece.

Lost literature.

Cycles (Literature).

Troy (Extinct city)--In literature.

Troy (Extinct city).

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

Homer.

Homer--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

He traces the development and transmission of the Cyclic poems in ancient Greek culture, comparing them to later Homeric poems and finding that they were far more influential than has previously been thought.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ONE

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

TWO

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

THREE

The Epic Cycle and Homer 132

Cropping around the Homeric Poems

Extent of the Cycle Poems

Homeric Influence on the Epic Cycle?

Non-HomericAspects of the Epic Cycle.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

0-8018-7481-5

OCLC:

608483819