Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry

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Homeric Contexts

Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry

Edited by: Franco Montanari , Antonios Rengakos and Christos C. Tsagalis

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2012

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Volume 12 | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

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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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Introduction. The Homeric Question Today Franco Montanari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Theoretical Issues
Neoanalysis between Orality and Literacy: Some Remarks Concerning the Development of Greek Myths Including the Legend of the Capture of Troy Wolfgang Kullmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry Gregory Nagy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
Oral Formulaic Theory and the Individual Poet Margalit Finkelberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
Memory and Memories: Personal, Social, and Cultural Memory in the Poems of Homer Elizabeth Minchin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
Ἀρχοὺς αὖ νεῶν ἐρέω: A Programmatic Function of the Iliadic Catalogue of Ships Jim Marks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
Part II: Iliad
The Despised Migrant (Il. 9.648 = 16.59) Maureen Alden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
Orality, Fluid Textualization and Interweaving Themes. Some Remarks on the Doloneia: Magical Horses from Night to Light and Death to Life Anton Bierl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century Casey Dué Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
The Fate of Achilles in the Iliad Martina Hirschberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Grieving Achilles Leonard Muellner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
The Mourning of Thetis: ‘Allusion’ and the Future in the Iliad Adrian Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
Part III: Odyssey
Belatedness in the Travels of Odyss Jonathan S. Burgess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
The Telemachy and the Cyclic Nostoi Ioannis Petropoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Deauthorizing the Epic Cycle: Odysseus’ False Tale to Eumaeus (Od. 14.199 – 359) Christos Tsagalis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
Animal Similes in Odyssey 22 Suzanne Saïd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
Οὐ χρώμεϑα τοῖς ξενικοῖς ποιήμασιν: Questions about Evolution and Fluidity of the Odyssey Olga Levaniouk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	369
Part IV: Language and Formulas
Kypris, Kythereia and the Fifth Book of the Iliad A. C. Cassio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	413
Iterative and Syntactical Units: A Religious Gesture in the Iliad Pietro Pucci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
Epithets with Echoes: A Study on Formula-Narrative Interaction Naoko Yamagata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	445
Part V: Homer and Beyond
Homer ἀγωνιστής in Chalcis Andrea Debiasi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	471
Hesiod and the Epic Cycle Ruth Scodel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	501
The Writing Down of the Oral Thebaid that Homer Knew: In the Footsteps of Wolfgang Kullmann José B. Torres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	517
Some Reflections on Alpamysh Stephanie West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	531
The Iliad, Gilgamesh, and Neoanalysis Bruno Currie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	543
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	581
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	625
Indices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	631

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April 26, 2012

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9783110272017

Hardcover published on:

April 16, 2012

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9783110271959

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Front matter:

10

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698

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16

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110272017

eBook ISBN: 9783110272017

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Homer; Neoanalysis; Oral Poetry; Oral Theory

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