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Der Epische Cyclus: Oder Die Homerischen Dichter

Der Epische Cyclus: Oder Die Homerischen Dichter

Welcker, Friedrich Gottlieb

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ISBN10: 1108021271
ISBN13: 9781108021272
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 25 2010
Pages: 486
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: German
Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784-1868) was one of the most engaging and creative of German philologists during the formative period of modern classical scholarship; 'one of the heroes', Wilamowitz called him. Art, poetry and religion were to him all the same object of study, and a key to the world of Greek imagination and feeling. His attempt to grasp the meaning of all Greek mythology gave impetus to a still vigorous tradition. This work (in two volumes, first published 1835 and 1849) is his effort to recover the lost epics of the archaic period, and the conditions of their performance and transmission. If his adventurous reconstructions, here and in his companion work on Greek tragedy, do not always command assent, they offer many brilliant observations and insights. His influence has been as diffuse as it is unacknowledged; again and again one finds on reading him that Welcker said it first.

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