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Homer: The Resonance of Epic

Homer: The Resonance of Epic

Graziosi, Barbara
Haubold, Johannes

Paperback

Series: Classical Literature and Society

Miscellaneous LanguagesLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0715632825
ISBN13: 9780715632826
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Mar 10 2005
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.18
Language: English

This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them as belonging to a much wider history of the divine cosmos, whose structures and themes are reflected in the resonant patterns of Homer's traditional language and narrative techniques. Part II illustrates this claim by looking at some central aspects of the Homeric poems: the gods and fate, gender and society, death, fame and poetry. Each section shows how the patterns and preoccupations of Homeric storytelling reflect a historical vision that encompasses the making of the universe, from its beginnings when Heaven mated with Earth, to the present day.

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