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Author : D. N. Marōnitēs
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780739108833

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In Homeric Megathemes D.N. Maronitis puts forward war, homilia, and homecoming as three themes central to Homer's two epic poems, the Illiad and the Odyssey. Branching out from each of these themes are certain semiotic and structural characteristics that determine, specific to each of the poems, myth and plot, narrative syntax, and more generally, their poetic and humanistic character. The aim of Maronitis' study is to determine and document similarities and differences in the two Homeric epics through these themes and to identify examples of them in ancient lyric poetry and Attic tragedy. Maronitis' theoretical framework gives classics scholars and literary theorists interested in poetry, history, and tragedy a social and cultural research model for thinking about the genesis and maturity of great lyric works. His comparative approach, revealing the creative debt of the Odyssey to the Iliadic model, lays bare the progression of an art form through the development of literary technique, the shifts in classical ideologies (including anthropoligical ideas about "man"), and in politics. Anyone interested in the thought of the Archaic period should read this book.

Author : Christos C. Tsagalis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192698702

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The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity having been doubted since antiquity. Modern scholars are divided between those who regard it as a major interpolation by a later poet who was trained in the technique of epic composition and those who see it as the earliest manifestation of the very ancient theme of lochos. However, the first claim assumes the stylistic homogeneity of book 10, while the second sweeps out dictional and thematic difficulties by attributing them to the theme of ambush that is weakly represented in the extant corpus of archaic Greek epic. By applying sophisticated interpretive tools such as intratextual association, intertextual allusion, and oral neoanalysis, this book maintains that Iliad 10 is thematically consonant with the rest of the Iliad and that it has evolved from an earlier Iliadic version after the addition of the Rhesus episode, which did not circulate as an independent composition but formed part of lost oral epic poetry with cyclic features that focused on the events after the death of Achilles.

Author : Marina Coray
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110610183

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The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through the English translation of this ground-breaking reference work, edited by S. Douglas Olson, its valuable findings are now made accessible to students and scholars worldwide.

Author : Katharina Wesselmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110687941

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The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through the English translation of this ground-breaking reference work, edited by S. Douglas Olson, its valuable findings are now made accessible to students and scholars worldwide.

Author : Κώστας Μυρσιάδης
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781433108853

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Approaches to Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' consists of ten original essays on the Iliad and Odyssey by established Homeric scholars and university professors of Greek literature and culture. The anthology offers not only fresh approaches to reading, appreciating, and understanding these Homeric epics, but also attempts to make a case why these works are still relevant in the twenty-first century. Both epics are required reading in most college/university general and world literature courses, as is evident from their inclusion in part or in whole in many standard world literature anthologies. These ten new approaches to the first literary works of Western culture are intended as reading aids for both instructors and students in any college/university classroom in which either of these two Homeric epics are taught.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 1438113099

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Presents a collection of eight critical essays on the works of Homer.

Author : Kostas Myrsiades
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838642195

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These nine new essays on Homer's epics deal not only with major Homeric themes of time (honor), kleos (fame), geras (rewards), the psychology of Homeric warriors, and the re-evaluation of type scenes, but also with Homer's influence on contemporary film. Following the introduction and an essay which sets the historical background for the epics, four essays are devoted to fresh analysis of key passages and themes while another four turn to a discussion of the film Troy and Homer's influence on two other genres of American cinema.

Author : Claude Brügger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110558165

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The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through the English translation of this ground-breaking reference work, edited by S. Douglas Olson, its valuable findings are now made accessible to students and scholars worldwide.

Author : Magdalene Stoevesandt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501501763

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This commentary on the 6th book of the Iliad concentrates on the interpretation of two episodes which have received a great deal of scholarly attention: the encounter between Diomedes and Glaukos, which surprisingly ends with an exchange of weapons and not a duel, and the series of scenes ‘Hector in Troy’, which reveal the hero’s conflicting roles as defender of the city and father of his family.

Author : Bruce Louden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1139494902

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The Odyssey's larger plot is composed of a number of distinct genres of myth, all of which are extant in various Near Eastern cultures (Mesopotamian, West Semitic, and Egyptian). Unexpectedly, the Near Eastern culture with which the Odyssey has the most parallels is the Old Testament. Consideration of how much of the Odyssey focuses on non-heroic episodes - hosts receiving guests, a king disguised as a beggar, recognition scenes between long-separated family members - reaffirms the Odyssey's parallels with the Bible. In particular the book argues that the Odyssey is in a dialogic relationship with Genesis, which features the same three types of myth that comprise the majority of the Odyssey: theoxeny, romance (Joseph in Egypt), and Argonautic myth (Jacob winning Rachel from Laban). The Odyssey also offers intriguing parallels to the Book of Jonah, and Odysseus' treatment by the suitors offers close parallels to the Gospels' depiction of Christ in Jerusalem.