| Description |
1 online resource (x, 225 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- The death of Simoeisios : Iliad 4.474-489 -- The Horses of Achilles in Book 17 of the Iliad -- Odysseus and Polyphemos in the Odyssey -- Mythological allusion in the Odyssey : Herakles and the Bow of Odysseus -- Divine and human in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite -- Homeric intertextuality : two examples -- A cognitive approach to Greek meter : Hermann's Bridge in the Homeric Hexameter and the interpretation of Iliad 24 -- Milman Parry and the literary interpretation of Homeric poetry -- Ioannis Kakridis and neoanalysis -- Cavafy and Iliad 24 : a modern Alexandrian interprets Homer -- 'War, what is it good for' in Homer's Iliad and Four Receptions? -- An American Homer for the twentieth century |
| Summary |
This book explores the history of literary interpretation of the 'Iliad', the 'Odyssey', and the 'Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite', comprising twelve chapters, some previously published but extensively revised for this collection, and some appearing here in print for the first time. While some chapters closely study the diction, meter, style, and thematic resonance of particular passages and episodes in the Iliad and the Odyssey, others follow diverse pathways into the interpretation of the epics, including mythological allusion, intertextuality, the metrics of the Homeric hexameter, and the fundamental contrast between divinity and humanity. Also included are two chapters which focus on the work of Milman Parry and Ioannis Kakridis, founders of the two most fruitful twentieth-century scholarly approaches to Homeric scholarship: the study of the Iliad and the Odyssey as traditional oral formulaic poetry (Parry), and the study of the poems' adaptations and transformations of traditional mythology, folktales, and poetic motifs in accordance with their distinctive themes and poetic purposes (Kakridis). The volume draws to a close with three chapters which discuss some of the most compelling poetic and critical receptions of the Iliad and the Odyssey since the late nineteenth century, and the institutional reception of the epics in colleges and universities in the United States over the past two centuries. Written over a period of 45 years, this collection reflects author Seth L. Schein's long-standing interest in, and scholarly and critical approaches to, the literary interpretation of Homeric poetry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Homer. Iliad.
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Homer. Odyssey.
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| SUBJECT |
Hymn to Aphrodite (Homeric hymn 5)
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Hymn to Aphrodite (Homeric hymn 5) fast |
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Iliad (Homer) fast |
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Odyssey (Homer) fast |
| Subject |
Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Epic poetry, Greek
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191808456 |
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0191808458 |
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9780191057854 |
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0191057851 |
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