The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle / Jonathan S. Burgess.
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- 0801866529 (hbk.)
- 080187890X (pbk.)
- 883.01
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883.01 BES On the Iliad. | 883.01 BIT Odysseus unbound : the search for Homer's Ithaca / | 883.01 BOW Tradition and design in the Iliad / | 883.01 BUR The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle / | 883.01 CAM An introduction to Homer / | 883.01 CAR Folk tale, fiction and saga in the Homeric epics / | 883.01 CLA The art of the Odyssey / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index.
"Although the Iliad and Odyssey narrate only relatively small portions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, for centuries these works have overshadowed other, more comprehensive narratives of the conflict, particularly the poems roughly contemporary to Homer's known as the Epic Cycle. In The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle, Jonathan Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the war's history and the legends surrounding it, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age. He traces the development and transmission of the Cyclic poems in ancient Greek culture, comparing them to later Homeric poems and finding that they were far more influential than has previously been thought."-- Publihser's description.