Homer: The Resonance of Epic (Classical Literature and Society) - Softcover

Graziosi, Barbara; Haubold, Johannes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715632825 ISBN 13: 9780715632826

Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Graziosi Barbara Haubold Johannes

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Reseña del editor:

This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them as belonging to a much wider history of the divine cosmos, whose structures and themes are reflected in the resonant patterns of Homer's traditional language and narrative techniques. Part II illustrates this claim by looking at some central aspects of the Homeric poems: the gods and fate, gender and society, death, fame and poetry. Each section shows how the patterns and preoccupations of Homeric storytelling reflect a historical vision that encompasses the making of the universe, from its beginnings when Heaven mated with Earth, to the present day.

Biografía del autor:

Barbara Graziosi is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Durham and the author of Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic (2002). Johannes Haubold is Lecturer in Greek Literature at the University of Durham and the author of Homer's People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation (2000).

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0715632825
• ISBN 13: 9780715632826
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178