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Author Haubold, Johannes, author

Title Homer's people : epic poetry and social formation / Johannes Haubold, University of Cambridge
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Series Cambridge classical studies
Cambridge classical studies.
Contents Introduction: Between the omnipresent hero and the absent polis -- 1. Laoi in early Greek hexameter poetry. 'Shepherd of the people'. Privilege and obligation. An epic ideal. The failed ideal. Social structures. An incurable imbalance. Negative reciprocity. Society and the stone. 'The people of the Achaeans' -- 2. Homer's people. Laoi in the Iliad. Laoi in the Odyssey -- 3. Laos epic in performance. Some preliminary considerations. Homer's people outside Homer. Similarities. Differences. The founding people. Leos ritual. Ritual formulae. A festival of institutional progress. Laos epic in performance. App. A. Epic formulae -- App. B. Ritual formulae
Summary "This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both the Iliad and the Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people. The investigation draws on a wide range of approaches from formulaic analysis to the study of early performance contexts."--Jacket
Notes Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Cambridge University
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and indexes
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Subject Homer -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Homer fast
Homerus ca. v8. Jh. gnd
Homero. larpcal
Subject Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Greece
Literature and society -- Greece
Social structure in literature.
Community life in literature.
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Politics and literature -- Greece -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Community life in literature
Epic poetry, Greek
Literature and society
Oral-formulaic analysis
Political and social views
Politics and literature
Social structure in literature
Volk Motiv
Sozialstruktur
Sociale organisatie.
Ilias (Homerus)
Odyssea (Homerus)
Literatura grega (história e crítica;sociedade)
Poesia épica -- Grécia antiga.
Greece
Genre/Form History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511410253
0511410255
9781107297975
1107297974
9780521066419
0521066417