Homer and Early Greek Epic : Collected Essays / Margalit Finkelberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finkelberg, Margalit, Author.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 89.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 89

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Analysis (Philosophy).

Question (Logic).

Oral-formulaic analysis.

Homer--Criticism and interpretation.

Homer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 418 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This collection includes thirty scholarly essays on Homer and Greek epic poetry published by Margalit Finkelberg over the past three decades. The topics discussed reflect the author's research interests and represent the main directions of her contribution to Homeric studies: Homer's language and diction, archaic Greek epic tradition, Homer's world and values, transmission and reception of the Homeric poems. The book gives special emphasis to some of the central issues in contemporary Homeric scholarship, such as oral-formulaic theory and the role of the individual poet; Neoanalysis and the character of the relationship between Homer and the tradition about the Trojan War; the multi-layered texture of the Homeric poems; the Homeric Question; the canonic status of the Iliad and the Odyssey in antiquity and modernity. All the articles are revised and updated. The book addresses both scholars and advanced students of Classics, as well as non-specialists interested in the Homeric poems and their journey through centuries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of Abbreviations

List of the original publication venues

1. Is ΚΛΕΟΣ ΑΦΘΙΤΟΝ a Homeric Formula?

2. Homer's View of the Epic Narrative: Some Formulaic Evidence

3. A Note on some Metrical Irregularities in Homer

4. Formulaic and Nonformulaic Elements in Homer

5. Homer, a Poet of an Individual Style

6. Oral Theory and the Limits of Formulaic Diction

7. More on ΚΛΕΟΣ ΑΦΘΙΤΟΝ

8. Late Features in the Speeches of the Iliad

9. Oral-Formulaic Theory and the Individual Poet

10. Equivalent Formulae for Zeus in Their Traditional Context

11. The First Song of Demodocus

12. A Creative Oral Poet and the Muse

13. How Could Achilles' Fame Have Been Lost?

14. The Sources of Iliad 7

15. The End of the Heroic Age in Homer, Hesiod and the Cycle

16. Homer and his Peers: Neoanalysis, Oral Theory, and the Status of Homer

17. Meta-Cyclic Epic and Homeric Poetry

18. The Formation of the Homeric Epics

19. Royal Succession in Heroic Greece

20. Odysseus and the Genus 'Hero'

21. Patterns of Human Error in Homer

22. Timē and Aretē in Homer

23. Homer and the Bottomless Well of the Past

24. Greece in the Eighth Century BCE and the 'Renaissance' Phenomenon

25. Ajax's Entry in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women

26. The Cypria, the Iliad, and the Problem of Multiformity in Oral and Written Tradition

27. Homer as a Foundation Text

28. 'She Turns about in the Same Spot and Watches for Orion': ancient criticism and exegesis of Od. 5.274 = Il. 18.488

29. Regional Texts and the Circulation of Books: The Case of Homer

30. Canonizing and Decanonizing Homer: Reception of the Homeric Poems in Antiquity and Modernity

31. Homer at the Panathenaia: Some possible Scenarios

References

General index

Index of passages cited

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110671452

311067145X

9783110671520

3110671522

OCLC:

1135585250