Early Greek epic : language, interpretation, performance / Christos Tsagalis.

"In the last fifty years major developments have taken place, both in the field of Homeric studies and in the rest of early Greek epic. These developments have not only created a more solid basis for studying the Homeric epics, but they have also broadened our horizons with respect to the place...

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Main Author: Tsagalis, Christos (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]
Series:Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 138.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Homer. Towards an oral, intertextual neoanalysis
  • Detextualizing Homer: Intonation units, background knowledge, and the proems of the Iliad and the Odyssey
  • The dynamic hypertext: Lists and catalogues in the Homeric epics
  • Naming Helen: Localization, meter, and semantics of a Homeric character
  • Epic space revisited: Narrative and intertext in the episode between Diomedes and Glaucus (Il. 6.119-236)
  • Ἀπ᾽/κατ᾽ αἰγίλιπος πέτρης: Homeric iconyms and Hittite answers
  • Revisiting an old crux: Iliad 11.609-610
  • Iliad 11.662: A note
  • Deauthorizing the epic cycle: Odysseus' false tale to Eumaeus (Od. 14.199-359)
  • Part II: Hesiod. Poetry and poetics in the Hesiodic corpus
  • Soundplay in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
  • Part III: The Epic Cycle. The gods in cyclic epic
  • γυναίων εἵνεκα δώρων: Interformularity and intertraditionality in Theban and Homeric epic
  • Cypria fr. 19 (PEG, GEF): A reconsideration
  • Telegony
  • Verses attributed to the Telegony
  • Part IV: The Performance of Epic. Ἀοιδός and ῥαψῳδός: Methodological problems and assumptions
  • Performance contexts for rhapsodic recitals in the Archaic and Classical periods
  • Performance contexts for rhapsodic recitals in the Hellenistic period
  • Rhapsodes and rhapsodic recitals in the Imperial period.