The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107012597 ISBN 13: 9781107012592

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The poems of the Epic Cycle, although surviving only as fragments, are crucial for understanding the development of the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of Greek mythology more broadly. This volume provides the scholarly community and graduate students with a thorough critical foundation for reading and interpreting them.

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'The book is beautifully produced in CUP's attractive wide-margin format. The footnotes contain helpfully abundant cross-referencing of chapters ... This is an excellent and important Companion that brings together, on an unprecedented scale for this material, clear and detailed summaries of the state of play in a notably complex field of scholarship.' Lyndsay Coo, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Reseña del editor:

The poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myths and narratives which took their present form in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The remains of these texts allow us to investigate diachronic aspects of epic diction as well as the extent of variation within it on the part of individual authors - two of the most important questions in modern research on archaic epic. They also help to illuminate the early history of Greek mythology. Access to the poems, however, has been thwarted by their current fragmentary state. This volume provides the scholarly community and graduate students with a thorough critical foundation for reading and interpreting them.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107012597
• ISBN 13: 9781107012592
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 690
• Herausgeber: Fantuzzi Marco, Tsagalis Christos