Homer and the Sacred City / Stephen Scully.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scully, Stephen, Author.

Series:

Myth and Poetics Series

Myth and Poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry & Criticism.

Local Subjects:

Poetry & Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The importance of the polis in Homeric literature is most evident in the Iliad, a poem concerned in large measure with the holy city of Troy. Stephen Scully here deepens our understanding of both the poetic and the social significance of the city in Homer through a close analysis of the poem's formulaic language. Drawing on scholarship in literary studies, archaeology, and comparative religion, Scully demonstrates that it is the urban setting of the Iliad, as well as the collision of the individual fates of its characters, which generates its most profound tragic themes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Nagy, Gregory

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Toward a Definition of the Polis in Homer

2. The Sacred Polis

3. The Walled Polis

4. The People of the Polis

5. City Epithets and Homeric Poetics

6. History and Composition

7. Oikos and Polis in the Homeric Poems

8. Achilles, Troy, and Hektor: A Configuration

Appendix 1. Nature and Technology in Place Epithets

Appendix 2. Sacred Places

Appendix 3. Sacred Cities of the East

Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

General Index

Index of Ancient Passages Cited

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3779-1

OCLC:

1143830718