Homeric Contexts : : Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry / / ed. by Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos, Christos C. Tsagalis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
• MitwirkendeR: Alden, Maureen,; Bierl, Anton,; Burgess, Jonathan S.,; Cassio, A. C.,; Currie, Bruno,; Debiasi, Andrea,; Dué, Casey,; Finkelberg, Margalit,; Hirschberger, Martina,; Kelly, Adrian,; Kullmann, Wolfgang,; Levaniouk, Olga,; Marks, Jim,; Minchin, Elizabeth,; Montanari, Franco,; Muellner, Leonard,; Nagy, Gregory,; Petropoulos, Ioannis,; Pucci, Pietro,; Saïd, Suzanne,; Scodel, Ruth,; Torres, José B.,; Tsagalis, Christos,; West, Stephanie,; Yamagata, Naoko,
• HerausgeberIn: Montanari, Franco,; Rengakos, Antonios,; Tsagalis, Christos C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (698 p.)

This volume aims at offering a critical reassessment of the progress made in Homeric research in recent years, focussing on its two main trends, Neonalysis and Oral Theory. Interpreting Homer in the 21st century asks for a holistic approach that allows us to reconsider some of our methodological tools and preconceptions concerning what we call Homeric poetry. The neoanalytical and oral 'booms', which have to a large extent influenced the way we see Homer today, may be re-evaluated if we are willing to endorse a more flexible approach to certain scholarly taboos pertaining to these two schools of interpretation. Song-traditions, formula, performance, multiformity on the one hand, and Motivforschung, Epic Cycle on the other, may not be so incompatible as we often tend to think.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction. The Homeric Question Today -- Part I: Theoretical Issues -- Neoanalysis between Orality and Literacy: Some Remarks Concerning the Development of Greek Myths Including the Legend of the Capture of Troy -- Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry -- Oral Formulaic Theory and the Individual Poet -- Memory and Memories: Personal, Social, and Cultural Memory in the Poems of Homer -- Ἀρχοὺς αὖ νεῶν ἐρέω: A Programmatic Function of the Iliadic Catalogue of Ships -- Part II: Iliad -- The Despised Migrant (Il. 9.648 = 16.59) -- Orality, Fluid Textualization and Interweaving Themes. Some Remarks on the Doloneia: Magical Horses from Night to Light and Death to Life -- Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century -- The Fate of Achilles in the Iliad -- Grieving Achilles -- The Mourning of Thetis: ‘Allusion’ and the Future in the Iliad -- Part III: Odyssey -- Belatedness in the Travels of Odyss -- The Telemachy and the Cyclic Nostoi -- Deauthorizing the Epic Cycle: Odysseus’ False Tale to Eumaeus (Od. 14.199 – 359) -- Animal Similes in Odyssey 22 -- Οὐ χρώμεϑα τοῖς ξενικοῖς ποιήμασιν: Questions about Evolution and Fluidity of the Odyssey -- Part IV: Language and Formulas -- Kypris, Kythereia and the Fifth Book of the Iliad -- Iterative and Syntactical Units: A Religious Gesture in the Iliad -- Epithets with Echoes: A Study on Formula-Narrative Interaction -- Part V: Homer and Beyond -- Homer ἀγωνιστής in Chalcis -- Hesiod and the Epic Cycle -- The Writing Down of the Oral Thebaid that Homer Knew: In the Footsteps of Wolfgang Kullmann -- Some Reflections on Alpamysh -- The Iliad, Gilgamesh, and Neoanalysis -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Indices