Homer's Thebes : Epic Rivalries and the Appropriation of Mythical Pasts

by: Barker, E.Y.E. Christensen, J.P.

Price: 28,62 EURO

1 copy in stock

Homer?s Iliad and Odyssey are the only early Greek heroic epics to have survived the transition to writing, even though extant evidence indicates that they emerged from a thriving oral culture. Among the missing are the songs of Boeotian Thebes.

Homer?s Thebes examines moments in the Iliad and Odyssey where Theban characters and thematic engagements come to the fore. Rather than sifting through these appearances to reconstruct lost poems, Elton Barker and Joel Christensen argue that the Homeric poems borrow heroes from Thebes to address key ideas—about politics, time, and genre—that set out the unique superiority of these texts in performance. By using evidence from Hesiod and fragmentary sources attributed to Theban tradition, Barker and Christensen explore Homer?s appropriation of Theban motifs of strife and distribution to promote his tale of the sack of Troy and the returns home.

As Homer?s Thebes shows, this Theban material sheds light on the exceptionality of the Homeric epics through the notions of poetic rivalry and Panhellenism. Furthermore, by emphasizing a nonhierarchical model of “reading” the epics derived from oral-formulaic poetics, this book contributes to recent debates about allusion, neoanalysis, and intertextuality.

Elton T. E. Barker is Reader in Classical Studies at The Open University.

Joel P. Christensen is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Brandeis University.

The Politics of Aristotle

by: Barker, E.

• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1957

Price: 39,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

The Greek Commonwealth : Politics and Economics in Fifth-Century Athens

by: Zimmern, A.

• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1961

Price: 29,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

Homer's Thebes : Epic Rivalries and the Appropriation of Mythical Pasts

by: Barker, E.Y.E. Christensen, J.P.

• ISBN-13: 9780674237926 / 978-0-674-23792-6
• ISBN-03: 0674237927 / 0-674-23792-7
• Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2020

Price: 28,62 EURO

1 copy in stock

ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΜΕΤΑΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ / HISTORY'S OUTLINE OF THE POST-BYZANTINE LAW

by: ΓΚΙΝΗ, Δ.Δ.

• ΑΚΑΔΗΜΙΑ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ / Academy of Athens, ΑΘΗΝΑ / Athens, 1966

Price: 29,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

Noi Monumente Epigrafice din Scythia Minor

by: Aricescu, A. Barbu, V. Gostar, N. Poenaru-Bordea, Gh. Radulescu, A.

• Muzeul Regional de Archeologie Dobrogea, Constanja, 1964

Price: 25,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

Transactions in Stone : Making sculpture in Athenian society in the sixth and fifth centuries BC

by: Hochscheid, H.

• , , 2010

Price: 95,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

The Conservation of European Cities. / Conservation Experiments / Zivas, D.A.: The Future of the Old Sector of the City of Athens : Plaka (pages 153 up to 163)

by: Appleyard, D.

• ISBN-13: 9780262010573 / 978-0-262-01057-3
• ISBN-03: 0262010577 / 0-262-01057-7
• The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979

Price: 39,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

I nebrodi nell'antichita : citta Culture Paesaggio

by: Collura, F.

• ISBN-13: 9781789692648 / 978-1-78969-264-8
• ISBN-03: 1789692644 / 1-78969-264-4
• Archaeopress, Oxford, 2019

Price: 74,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

L'Impero di Trebisonda Venezia Genova e Roma 1204-1461. Rapporti, politici, diplomatici e commerciali

by: Karpov, S.P.

• ISBN-03: 8885015263
• il Veltro editrice, Roma, 1986