Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War : dialogues on tradition / Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haywood, Jan, author.

Mac Sweeney, Naoíse, 1982- author.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in classical reception

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer. Iliad.

Homer.

Homer--Influence.

Iliad (Homer).

Trojan War--Literature and the war.

Trojan War.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

ix, 224 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Summary:

In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoise Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural contexts; and from Athenian pot paintings to twelfth-century German scholarship, they engage with a range of different media and genres.0Inspired by the dialogues inherent in the process of reception, the book adopts a dialogic structure. In each chapter, paired essays by Haywood and Mac Sweeney offer contrasting authorial voices addressing a single theme, thereby drawing out connections and dissonances between a diverse suite of classical and post-classical Iliadic receptions. The resulting book offers new insights, both into individual instances of Iliadic reception in particular historical contexts, but also into the workings of a complex story tradition. The centrality of the Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition is shown to be a function of conscious engagement not only with Iliadic content, but also with Iliadic status and the iconic idea of the Homeric.

Contents:

Introduction: dialogue

Navigating tradition

Visualising society

Staging conflict

Seeking truth

Claiming identities

Conclusion: memorial.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350012684

1350012688

OCLC:

991642028