The anthology offers not only fresh approaches to reading, appreciating, and understanding these Homeric epics, but also attempts to make a case why these works are still relevant in the twenty-first century.
Author: Κώστας Μυρσιάδης
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 1433108852
Category: Literary Criticism
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Approaches to Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' consists of ten original essays on the Iliad and Odyssey by established Homeric scholars and university professors of Greek literature and culture. The anthology offers not only fresh approaches to reading, appreciating, and understanding these Homeric epics, but also attempts to make a case why these works are still relevant in the twenty-first century. Both epics are required reading in most college/university general and world literature courses, as is evident from their inclusion in part or in whole in many standard world literature anthologies. These ten new approaches to the first literary works of Western culture are intended as reading aids for both instructors and students in any college/university classroom in which either of these two Homeric epics are taught.
Heubeck , A . and Hoekstra , A . 1989 A Commentary on Homer ' s Odyssey , vol .
II : Books ix - xvi , Oxford . Janko , R . 1992 The Iliad : A commentary , vol . IV :
Books 13 – 16 , Cambridge . Kirk , G . S . 1970 Myth : Its meaning and function in
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Author: Robert J. Rabel
Publisher: Classical Pressof Wales
ISBN: UOM:39015063202975
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 201
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Ten new essays, from a distinguished cast of (mainly) North American scholars, approach Homer with insights gained from the modern disciplines of psychology and anthropology, narratology, oral theory and cognitive research. But the contributors also attend to ancient modes of approach to the Homeric poems: linguistic and narratological, ethical and psychological. The volume focuses both on literary technique in the poems, and on the portrayal of characters and peoples, central and marginal.
Jh . s . v . Christ ' in Latacz 1991 , 205 - 56 . - 1993 : ' Homer to Solon , The Rise of
the Polis : the Written Sources ' , in The ... 1983 : Approaches to Homer ( Austin ,
Texas ) . ... 1995 : Singers , Heroes and Gods in the Odyssey ( Ithaca and London
) . SILK , M . s . 1987 : Homer : the Iliad ( Landmarks in World Literature series ) ...
Author: Richard Rutherford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0199222096
Category: History
Page: 116
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A concise yet detailed account of the state of criticism of the two great epics ascribed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer. O stay , oh pride of Greece ! Ulysses stay ! O cease thy course , and listen
to our lay ! Blest is the man ordain'd our voice to hear ... I 3 Approach ! Approach !
thy foul shall into raptures rise ! Approach Book XII . HOMER's ODYSSEY . 173.
Teucer , behold ! extended on the shore Such is the fate of Greece , and such is
ours . Our friend ... Through bis fair neck the thrilling arrow flies ; Mark how the
flames approach , how near they fall , In youth ' s first bloom reluctantly be dies .
Approaches to Teaching Homer ' s Iliad and Odyssey . New York : Modern
Language Association of America , 1987 . Nagy , Gregory . The Best of the
Achaeans : Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry . Baltimore : Johns
Hopkins ...
Author: Philip H. Young
Publisher: McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub
ISBN: UOM:39015057647854
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 481
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The Greek poet Homer was one of the greatest and most influential poets of all time. His epicIliadandOdysseywere the foundation of Greek education and culture in the classical age ("Our earliest infancy was entrusted to the care of Homer," said Heraclitus 2500 years ago) and are widely read today. Nothing is known of Homer's life (some even doubt his existence) or of the composition of the two epics but we can assume that the texts that survive are not as they were originally formed in oral tradition. This is a publishing and translation history of the written forms of theIliadand theOdyssey.It first considers who Homer might have been and then explores the when and how of the creation of the written forms of the works. The Homeric text in classical times and in medieval Europe and the Byzantine Empire, and the Homeric text, the printing press and Renaissance humanism are next taken up. The successes and failures of the many who attempted to translate the works are analyzed critically and then-a major portion of the book-all the known texts, editions and translations of theIliadand theOdysseyfrom 1470 to 2000 are listed. Finally, the author considers the future of the Homeric texts and the Poet's relevance to this and future generations. Seven valuable appendices (e.g., Modernizing of Latin City Names; First Printings in Vernacular Languages), a bibliography, and an index complete the work.
The original words in little place , And wrought it all ways with their sweat , & c . ...
The words are these , Bedéwv our Homer ' s divine invention wherein , I see
amepúkol épwry , which Spondanus truly not in any of their shorter translations ...
From the men ' s hall at Tiryns to the so - called women ' s hall the only modes of
access were by very circuitous and ... All these three approaches are stopped in
several places by doors , and the women ' s apartment was therefore quite ...
... the Meaning of Philos by Dale S . Sinos , 1980 ; Homer ' s Readers : A
Historical Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey ... The Wrath of Athena : Gods
and Men in the Odyssey by Jenny Strauss Clay , 1983 ; Approaches to Homer
edited by ...
Author: Sara Pendergast
Publisher: Saint James Press
ISBN: 1558624910
Category: Literature
Page: 1730
View: 117
Online version of the 2-vol. work issued by St. James Press, 2003, in series St. James reference guides.
Now rest their spears , or lean upon their The good old Priam welcomed her , and
shields ; cried , Ceased is the war , and silent all the fields . Approach , my child ,
and grace thy father's Paris alone and Sparta's king advance , side . In single ...
If she must wed , from other bands require The dow'ry : is Telemachus her fire ? ... Approach that hour ! unsufferable wrong Cries to the gods , and vengeance
sleeps too long . ... commit th ' unpunish'd wrong , You make the arm of violence
too strong . j 95 3 While thus he spoke , with rage While 20 HOMER'S ODYSSEY
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The essays in this collections address questions of intense interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; ...
Author: Miriam Carlisle
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0847694240
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 241
View: 372
The essays in this collections address questions of intense interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; the ways in which epic incorporates material of diverse genres, such as women's laments, blame poetry, or folk tales; how the ideological balance of epic can change and be influenced by 'alternative ideologies' introduced through the incorporation of new material; the implications of the continuity of tradition for etymological studies; and how the traditional nature of epic affects textual criticism. The essays differ in focus and method, but all share one fundamental approach to Homer: an understanding of the Homeric tradition as a poetic system that expresses and preserves what is culturally important and a view of the Homeric epics as instances of a cultural tradition which they attempt to explore through the epics themselves and through the comparative, anthropological, and linguistic evidence they bring to bear on these texts. A unique collection that explores Homeric poetry through a variety of tools and approaches--linguistics, philology, cultural anthropology, sociology, textual criticism, and archeology--this volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of oral poetry and Classical literature.
The fields are: (1) archaeology, (2) comparative linguistics, and (3) study of “oral
poetry. ... in which the Iliad and Odyssey were reaching their ultimate formis as
important for our understanding of Homeric poetry as is the late second
millennium ...
Author: Carl A. Rubino
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292767874
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 294
View: 856
Modern Homeric scholarship is distinguished by a dazzling diversity of approaches. That diversity is brilliantly displayed in this volume, in which nine well-known classicists approach the Homeric poems from the various perspectives of archaeology, economic history, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, and Byzantine history. Several essays are primarily concerned with what the Homeric poems teach us about the past. Richard Hope Simpson, for example, reviews the controversy sparked by his and John F. Lazenby's 1970 argument that the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad accurately reflects the geography of Mycenean Greece. Using archaeology as just one of his starting points, Gregory Nagy reflects upon the death and funeral of Sarpedon as described in the Iliad. Our understanding of the word áté is enhanced by E. D. Francis, who closely examines its prehistory. Norman Austin's elegant and original discussion of tone in the Odyssey's Cyclops tale is animated by both psychoanalytic theory and his work with two practitioners of optometric visual training. Writing of Odysseus, James M. Redfield dubs that hero "the economic man" and links certain tensions in the Odyssey to the actual economic concerns of Greece in the late eighth century BC. Both Ann L. T. Bergren and Mabel L. Lang concern themselves with problems of narrative in the Homeric epics. Like Hope Simpson, C. J. Rowe updates a controversy—in this instance, the many objections raised to Arthur Adkins' influential 1960 study of moral values in Homer. Gareth Morgan provides a fascinating glimpse of the Homeric scholarship of another day by focusing on the work of the astonishing John Tzetzes in twelfth-century Byzantium.
Foerster, Homer in English Criticism: The Historical Approach in the Eighteenth
Century (Shoe) $6.50. Gaunt, Surge and ... Jebb, Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey (Kenn) $7.50. Kirk, Homer and the ... Simpson & Lazenby ...
Even though most of the poets examined in this chapter are no longer fully extant,
it is clear from the fragments and ... Their approaches to Homer were to tap into
his authority by overwriting the Iliad and/or Odyssey and incorporating them into ...
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Publisher: Stanford University
ISBN: STANFORD:hn098nn5393
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This dissertation examines the relationship between the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, a 14-book epic of the third century CE. It argues that Quintus bridges the narratives of the Iliad and the Odyssey and redeploys Homeric style in order to re-activate the cultural power of Homer under the Roman Empire. The first chapter analyzes Quintus' depiction of the Muses. The ways in which the goddesses are represented encodes the contemporary conflict of constructing a Greek identity as panhellenic or epichoric in the language of the past. This demonstrates the Posthomerica's deep engagement with the position of Hellenism and its connection to the past. The lack of an opening invocation to the Muses is part of Quintus' strategy for tapping into Homeric power: he connects the Iliad with the Posthomerica but also respects the boundaries of the Homeric text. The second chapter explores how Quintus occasionally draws his audience's gaze away from the primary narrative of the heroic past and towards their own present. This is done through landscapes, a simile involving the arena, Odysseus' testudo maneuver, and Calchas' prophecy about the Roman empire. These passages fuse the two time-frames together, which implicates the past in the construction of the present. In the third chapter specific nodes of intertextuality between the Posthomerica and the Iliad/Odyssey are the primary focus. It is argued that the intertextual web is incomplete, and that the audience must engage their education (paideia) to fill in the narrative gaps. This engages them in creating a Hellenic identity from the narratives of the past with knowledge derived from the present. The fourth chapter contextualizes Quintus with other hexameter poets of the first through fourth centuries CE who treated the Trojan War narrative, including Nestor and Pisander of Laranda, Triphiodorus, and hexameter papyrus fragments.
Needless to say , antiquity did ask questions about the Poet of the Iliad and Odyssey ( “ who is Homer ? ... Ancient approaches , by necessity , embody other
principles and perspectives , ontological , epistemological , historiographic , and
so ...
Author: Ahuvia Kahane
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739111345
Category: Fiction
Page: 265
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Diachronic Dialogues considers central aspects of Homer's poetry, such as truth, knowledge, gender, virtue and the heroic code, authorship, memory and song, diction and formula. This book makes the case for performative, rather than essential values in the Illiad and the Odyssey.
Homer . Greece and Rome Studies . Oxford , 1998 . Morris , Ian , and Barry
Powell , eds . A New Companion to Homer . Leiden , 1997 . Myrsiades , Kostas ,
ed . Approaches to Teaching Homer ' s Iliad and Odyssey . New York , 1987 .
Nelson ...
Author: Homer
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015056164885
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 421
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Translated into dactylic hexameter, this edition of the Odyssey recaptures the oral-formulaic experience as never before
His fine book The Rape of Troy, the work Carroll describes as “a discursive
historical and interpretive account of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey,” is an
anthropological rather than a literary critical enterprise. As Gottschall himself
defines the book in ...
Author: Nancy Easterlin
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9781421405049
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 336
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”A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation offers a fresh and reasoned approach to literary studies that at once preserves the central importance that interpretation plays in the humanities and embraces the exciting developments of the cognitive sciences.
1602 ) . 24 The Iliad , the Odyssey , the Aeneid and Paradise Lost But the specific
influence of the Iliad is found at its most ... different ways look back to the Iliad ,
taking it as their point of departure for new developments which would have been
...
Author: M. S. Silk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052153996X
Category: History
Page: 103
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This volume is a distinctive critical introduction to Homer's Iliad, the earliest epic poem, and the earliest known work of literature in ancient Greece. Michael Silk deals with the poem's historical context, its composition and its extensive influence, and relates its literary power to the peculiar coherence and inter-relation of such aspects of the poem as its style, character-portrayal and ideology. This revised edition takes account of recent scholarship in the field and includes an updated guide to further reading. It is essential reading for students of literature and classics.
