Nine Essays on Homer

by: Carlisle, M. Levaniouk, O.

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The essays in this collection addresses questions of intense interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; the ways in which epic incorporates material of diverse genres, such as women's laments, blame poetry, or folk tales; how the ideological balance of epic can change and be influenced by 'alternative ideologies' introduced through the incorporation of new material; the implications of the continuity of tradition for etymological studies; and how the traditional nature of epic affects textual criticism. The essays differ in focus and method, but all share one fundamental approach to Homer: an understanding of the Homeric tradition as a poetic system that expresses and preserves what is culturally important and a view of the Homeric epics as instances of a cultural tradition which they attempt to explore through the epics themselves and through the comparative, anthropological, and linguistic evidence they bring to bear on these texts. A unique collection that explores Homeric poetry through a variety of tools and approaches—linguistics, philology, cultural anthropology, sociology, textual criticism, and archeology—this volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of oral poetry and Classical literature.

Miriam Carlisle and Olga Levaniouk are doctoral candidates in Classical Philology at Harvard University.

The wrath of Helen: self-blame and nemesis in the Iliad / Mary Ebbott
Odysseus and the Phaeacians / Corinne Ondine Pache
Thersites, Odysseus, and the social order / Andrea Kouklanakis
Homeric fictions: pseudo-words in Homer / Miriam Carlisle
Penelope and the Pênelops / Olga Levaniouk
Odysseus back home and back from the dead / Brian W. Breed
Artemis and the lion: two similes in Odyssey 6 / John Watrous
Homer's leopard simile / Fred Naiden
Homêros ekainopoiêse: Theseus, Aithra, and variations in Homeric myth-making / Thomas E. Jenkins

Nine Essays on Homer

by: Carlisle, M. Levaniouk, O.

• ISBN-13: 9780847694242 / 978-0-8476-9424-2
• ISBN-03: 0847694240 / 0-8476-9424-0
• Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 1999

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