The Songs of Homer

by: Kirk, G.S.

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 A vivid and comprehensive account of the background and development of the Homeric poems and their quality as literature

Part I. The historical background of the Homeric poems. 1. The rise of Mycenae ; 2. The Linear B tablets and life in a late Mycenaean palace-state ; 3. From the Mycenaean decline to the time of Homer
Part II. The oral poet and his methods. 4. Introductory, I, Heroic age and heroic poetry; 2, The language of formulas in Homer; 3, The oral tradition and the advent of writing; 4, The oral poet's use of established themes; 5, Originality and the formular method; 6, The comparative study of the oral epic in Yugoslavia; 7, The life-cycle of an oral tradition; 8, Oral dictated texts
Part III. The growth of the oral epic in Greece. 5. The evidence for Mycenaean epic ; 6. The poetical possibilities of the Dark Age ; 7. Dark Age elements and Aeolic elements
Part IV. Plurality and unity in Homer. 8. Subjects and styles ; 9. The cultural and linguistic amalgam; 1, The archaeological criterion; 2, The criterion of language ; 10. Structural anomalies in the Iliad ; 11. Structural anomalies in the Odyssey ; 12. The overriding unity
Part V. The development and transmission of the great poems. 13. The circumstances of Homeric composition; 1, 'Homer' and his region; 2, Audiences and occasions; 3, The date of the poems; 4, The relationship of the Iliad and Odyssey ; 14. The crucial phases of transmission ; 15. Stages of development
Part VI. The songs and their qualities. 16. The Iliad ; 17. The Odyssey ; 18. Man, fate and action: some special qualities of the Homeric poems

423 pages illustrations 23 cm

The Songs of Homer

by: Kirk, G.S.

• ISBN-13: 9780521058902 / 978-0-521-05890-2
• ISBN-03: 0521058902 / 0-521-05890-2
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1977

Price: 113,27 EURO

1 copy in stock