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Stanley The Shield of Homer
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Narrative Structure in the Illiad
E-Book, Englisch, 484 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6337-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
In this masterly interpretation of narrative sequence in the Iliad, Keith Stanley not only sharpens the current debate over the date and creation of the poem, but also challenges the view of this work as primarily a celebration of heroic force. He begins by studying the intricate ring-composition in the verses describing Achilles' shield, then extends this analysis to reveal the Iliad as an elaborate and self-conscious formal whole. In so doing he defends the hypothesis that the poem as we know it is a massive reorganization and expansion of earlier "Homeric" material, written in response to the need for a stable text for repeated performance at the sixth-century Athenian festival for the city's patron goddess.
Stanley explores the arrangement of the poem's books, all unified by theme and structure, showing how this allowed for artistically satisfying and practically feasible recitation over a period of three or four days. Taking structural emphasis as a guide to poetic discourse, the author argues that the Iliad is not a poem of "might"--as opposed to the Odyssean celebration of "guile"--but that in advocating social and personal reconciliation the poem offers a profound indictment of a warring heroic society.
Originally published in 1993.
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I Form and Interpretation in Homer 3
(1) The Shield of Achilleus as a Problem in Interpretation 3
(2) Ring-Composition in Homeric Digressions 6
(3) The Function of Ring-Composition in the Description of the Shield 9
(4) Structure and Interpretation in the Catalogue of Ships; Implications for the Shield 13
(5) Oral Theory and the Question of Structure 26
(6) Previous Views of Homeric Form 29
(7) The Organization of Narrative outside Digressions 32
(8) Structure within Books 36
II The Structure of Iliad 1-7 39
III The Structure of Iliad 8-17 103
IV The Structure of Iliad 18-24 186
V Structure and the Homeric Question 248
(1) Some Implications for the Nature of Our Iliad 248
(2) The Question of Book Division and Closure 249
(3) The Practical Function of the Book-Groups 261
(4) Orality versus Literacy in the Iliad 268
(5) The Date and Context of Our Iliad 279
(6) Our Iliad and Homer's 293
Acknowledgments 297
A Note on Documentation and Usage 299
List of Abbreviations 301
Notes 303
Bibliography 427
Index 453
