Montanari / Rengakos / Tsagalis Homeric Contexts

Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-027201-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 12, 708 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Classics - Supplementary VolumesISSN

This volume aims at offering a critical reassessment of the progress made in Homeric research in recent years, focussing on its two main trends, Neonalysis and Oral Theory. Interpreting Homer in the 21st century asks for a holistic approach that allows us to reconsider some of our methodological tools and preconceptions concerning what we call Homeric poetry. The neoanalytical and oral 'booms', which have to a large extent influenced the way we see Homer today, may be re-evaluated if we are willing to endorse a more flexible approach to certain scholarly taboos pertaining to these two schools of interpretation. Song-traditions, formula, performance, multiformity on the one hand, and Motivforschung, Epic Cycle on the other, may not be so incompatible as we often tend to think.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Montanari, Franco

Rengakos, Antonios

Tsagalis, Christos C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction The Homeric Question Today;12
2;Part I: Theoretical Issues;22
2.1;Neoanalysis between Orality and Literacy: Some Remarks Concerning the Development of Greek Myths Including the Legend of the Capture of Troy;24
2.2;Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry;38
2.3;Oral Formulaic Theory and the Individual Poet;84
2.4;Memory and Memories: Personal, Social, and Cultural Memory in the Poems of Homer;94
2.5;...... a. .e.. ....: A Programmatic Function of the Iliadic Catalogue of Ships;112
3;Part II: Iliad;124
3.1;The Despised Migrant (Il. 9.648 = 16.59);126
3.2;Orality, Fluid Textualization and Interweaving Themes. Some Remarks on the Doloneia: Magical Horses from Night to Light and Death to Life;144
3.3;Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century;186
3.4;The Fate of Achilles in the Iliad;196
3.5;Grieving Achilles;208
3.6;The Mourning of Thetis: ‘Allusion’ and the Future in the Iliad;232
4;Part III: Odyssey;278
4.1;Belatedness in the Travels of Odysseus;280
4.2;The Telemachy and the Cyclic Nostoi;302
4.3;Deauthorizing the Epic Cycle: Odysseus’ False Tale to Eumaeus (Od. 14.199–359);320
4.4;Animal Similes in Odyssey 22;358
4.5;.. ...µe.a t... .e...... p...µas..: Questions about Evolution and Fluidity of the Odyssey;380
5;Part IV: Language and Formulas;422
5.1;Kypris, Kythereia and the Fifth Book of the Iliad;424
5.2;Iterative and Syntactical Units: A Religious Gesture in the Iliad;438
5.3;Epithets with Echoes: A Study on Formula-Narrative Interaction;456
6;Part V: Homer and Beyond;480
6.1;Homer .....st.. in Chalcis;482
6.2;Hesiod and the Epic Cycle;512
6.3;The Writing Down of the Oral Thebaid that Homer Knew: In the Footsteps of Wolfgang Kullmann;528
6.4;Some Reflections on Alpamysh;542
6.5;The Iliad, Gilgamesh, and Neoanalysis;554
7;Bibliography;592
8;List of Contributors;636
9;Indices;642
9.1;General Index;642
9.2;Index of Ancient Names;652
9.3;Index of Modern Names;663
9.4;Index Locorum;677

Über Autor(innen)

Franco Montanari, University of Genova, Italy; Antonios Rengakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Christos Tsagalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.