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 too...

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