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Homeric Contexts

Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry
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Published/Copyright: 2012
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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.

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

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"Per quanto sommaria e selettiva, questa esposizione può dare comunque un’idea della varietà e complessità degli argomenti trattati. [...] a tutti va comunque riconosciuto un ottimo livello qualitativo, il che non sempre accade in pubblicazioni di questa natura."
Francesco Bertolini in: Athenaeum 105.2 (2017), 836-837

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    Frontmatter

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    Preface

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    Contents

    vii
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    Introduction. The Homeric Question Today

    1
    Franco Montanari
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  • Part I: Theoretical Issues
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    Neoanalysis between Orality and Literacy: Some Remarks Concerning the Development of Greek Myths Including the Legend of the Capture of Troy

    13
    Wolfgang Kullmann
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    Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry

    27
    Gregory Nagy
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    Oral Formulaic Theory and the Individual Poet

    73
    Margalit Finkelberg
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    Memory and Memories: Personal, Social, and Cultural Memory in the Poems of Homer

    83
    Elizabeth Minchin
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    Ἀρχοὺς αὖ νεῶν ἐρέω: A Programmatic Function of the Iliadic Catalogue of Ships

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    Jim Marks
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  • Part II: Iliad
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    The Despised Migrant (Il. 9.648 = 16.59)

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    Maureen Alden
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    Orality, Fluid Textualization and Interweaving Themes. Some Remarks on the Doloneia: Magical Horses from Night to Light and Death to Life

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    Anton Bierl
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    Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century

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    Casey Dué
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    The Fate of Achilles in the Iliad

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    Martina Hirschberger
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    Grieving Achilles

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    Leonard Muellner
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    The Mourning of Thetis: ‘Allusion’ and the Future in the Iliad

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    Adrian Kelly
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  • Part III: Odyssey
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    Belatedness in the Travels of Odyss

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    Jonathan S. Burgess
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    The Telemachy and the Cyclic Nostoi

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    Ioannis Petropoulos
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    Deauthorizing the Epic Cycle: Odysseus’ False Tale to Eumaeus (Od. 14.199 – 359)

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    Christos Tsagalis
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    Animal Similes in Odyssey 22

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    Suzanne Saïd
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    Οὐ χρώμεϑα τοῖς ξενικοῖς ποιήμασιν: Questions about Evolution and Fluidity of the Odyssey

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    Olga Levaniouk
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  • Part IV: Language and Formulas
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    Kypris, Kythereia and the Fifth Book of the Iliad

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    A. C. Cassio
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    Iterative and Syntactical Units: A Religious Gesture in the Iliad

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    Pietro Pucci
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    Epithets with Echoes: A Study on Formula-Narrative Interaction

    445
    Naoko Yamagata
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  • Part V: Homer and Beyond
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    Homer ἀγωνιστής in Chalcis

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    Andrea Debiasi
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    Hesiod and the Epic Cycle

    501
    Ruth Scodel
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    The Writing Down of the Oral Thebaid that Homer Knew: In the Footsteps of Wolfgang Kullmann

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    José B. Torres
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    Some Reflections on Alpamysh

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    Stephanie West
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    The Iliad, Gilgamesh, and Neoanalysis

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    Bruno Currie
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    Bibliography

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    List of Contributors

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    Indices

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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 26, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9783110272017
Hardcover published on:
April 16, 2012
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110271959
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
10
Main content:
698
Illustrations:
16
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110272017
eBook ISBN: 9783110272017
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110271959
Keywords for this book
Homer; Neoanalysis; Oral Poetry; Oral Theory
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Academics, Institutes, Libraries
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