Homer and the Epic Cycle

Recovering the Oral Traditional Relationship
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-45548-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 195 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Classical Poetry

How can the ancient relationship between Homer and the Epic Cycle be recovered? Using findings from the most significant research in the field, Andrew Porter questions many ancient and modern assumptions and offers alternative perspectives better aligned with ancient epic performance realities and modern epic studies. Porter’s volume addresses a number of related issues: the misrepresentation of Cyclic (and Homeric) epic by Aristotle and his inheritors; the role of the epic singer, patron/collector, and scribe/poet in the formation of memorialized songs; the relevance of shared patterns and devices and of other traditional connections between ancient epics; and the distinct fates of Homeric and Cyclic epic. Homer and the Epic Cycle: Recovering the Oral Traditional Relationship provides new answers to an age-old problem.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porter, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Homer and the Epic Cycle

Recovering the Oral Traditional Relationship

Andrew Porter

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction: Getting Perspective

Part Perspectives

1 Perspective Problems: Aristotle, Proclus, and Other Writers

2 Recent Perspectives: Reconsidering the Comparison

3 Rethinking Our Perspective: Epic Performance and Memorialization

4 A Shared Perspective: Oral Traditional Devices and Patterns

5 An Interdependent Perspective: Recovering the Relationship

Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Porter is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer (Harvard CHS, 2019).