The Homeric Epics
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Folk Tale Fiction And Saga In The Homeric Epics
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Author : Rhys Carpenter
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1962
Folk Tale Fiction And Saga In The Homeric Epics written by Rhys Carpenter and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Folklore categories.
The Homeric Epics
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Author : C. A. Trypanis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Homeric Epics written by C. A. Trypanis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Epic poetry, Greek categories.
Science And Technology In Homeric Epics
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Author : S. A. Paipetis
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-10-20
Science And Technology In Homeric Epics written by S. A. Paipetis and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-20 with Technology & Engineering categories.
In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included. Even if those features of Homeric science were just poetic concepts (which on many occasions does not explain the astonishing details of design and manufacture, like the ones included in the present volume), they seem to prove that these achievements were well within human capability. In addition, the substantial development of machine theory during the early post-Homeric age shows that the Homeric descriptions were a kind of prophetic conception of these machines, and scientific research must be a quest for the fundamental principles of knowledge available during the Late Bronze Age and the dawn of the Iron Age. Such investigations must of necessity be strongly interdisciplinary and also proceed continuously in time, since, as science progresses, new elements of knowledge are discovered in the Homeric Epics, amenable to scientific analysis. This book brings together papers presented at the international symposium Science and Technology in Homeric Epics, which took place at Ancient Olympia in 2006. It includes a total of 41 contributions, mostly original research papers, covering diverse fields of science and technology, in the modern sense of these words.
The Homeric Epics And The Gospel Of Mark
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Author : Dennis Ronald MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
The Homeric Epics And The Gospel Of Mark written by Dennis Ronald MacDonald and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Religion categories.
In this groundbreaking book, Dennis R. MacDonald offers an entirely new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. The author of the earliest gospel was not writing history, nor was he merely recording tradition, MacDonald argues. Close reading and careful analysis show that Mark borrowed extensively from the Odyssey and the Iliad and that he wanted his readers to recognise the Homeric antecedents in Mark's story of Jesus. Mark was composing a prose anti-epic, MacDonald says, presenting Jesus as a suffering hero modeled after but far superior to traditional Greek heroes. Much like Odysseus, Mark's Jesus sails the seas with uncomprehending companions, encounters preternatural opponents, and suffers many things before confronting rivals who have made his house a den of thieves. In his death and burial, Jesus emulates Hector, although unlike Hector Jesus leaves his tomb empty. Mark's minor characters, too, recall Homeric predecessors: Bartimaeus emulates Tiresias; Joseph of Arimathea, Priam; and the women at the tomb, Helen, Hecuba, and Andromache. And, entire episodes in Mark mirror Homeric episodes, including stilling the sea, walking on water, feeding the multitudes, the Triumphal E
Homer
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Author : Barbara Graziosi
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-10-16
Homer written by Barbara Graziosi and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them as belonging to a much wider history of the divine cosmos, whose structures and themes are reflected in the resonant patterns of Homer's traditional language and narrative techniques. Part II illustrates this claim by looking at some central aspects of the Homeric poems: the gods and fate, gender and society, death, fame and poetry. Each section shows how the patterns and preoccupations of Homeric storytelling reflect a historical vision that encompasses the making of the universe, from its beginnings when Heaven mated with Earth, to the present day.
The Cambridge Companion To Homer
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Author : Robert Louis Fowler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-14
The Cambridge Companion To Homer written by Robert Louis Fowler and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-14 with History categories.
The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional topics like the Homeric Question, the divine apparatus of the poems, the formulae, the characters and the archaeological background, there are detailed discussions of similes, speeches, the poet as story-teller and the genre of epic both within Greece and worldwide. The reception chapters include assessments of ancient Greek and Roman readings as well as selected modern interpretations from the eighteenth century to the present day. Chapters on Homer in English translation and Homer in the history of ideas round out the collection.
The Homeric Epics And The Chinese Book Of Songs
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Author : Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-19
The Homeric Epics And The Chinese Book Of Songs written by Fritz-Heiner Mutschler and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life, and thus exercised a lasting influence on both civilizations. This volume presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora. Part One analyzes their genesis and their reception, while Part Two discusses their characteristics as poetic creations. The book brings together Chinese and Western sinologists and classicists, and so promotes significant interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. Though the contributors rank among the leading experts in their fields, the essays here are accessible not only to their peers, but also to the interested ‘general reader’, and so to all those who seek a deeper understanding of Chinese and Western civilizations, their common human basis and their characteristic differences.
Homer And Early Greek Epic
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Author : Margalit Finkelberg
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-12-02
Homer And Early Greek Epic written by Margalit Finkelberg and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection includes thirty scholarly essays on Homer and Greek epic poetry published by Margalit Finkelberg over the past three decades. The topics discussed reflect the author’s research interests and represent the main directions of her contribution to Homeric studies: Homer's language and diction, archaic Greek epic tradition, Homer's world and values, transmission and reception of the Homeric poems. The book gives special emphasis to some of the central issues in contemporary Homeric scholarship, such as oral-formulaic theory and the role of the individual poet; Neoanalysis and the character of the relationship between Homer and the tradition about the Trojan War; the multi-layered texture of the Homeric poems; the Homeric Question; the canonic status of the Iliad and the Odyssey in antiquity and modernity. All the articles are revised and updated. The book addresses both scholars and advanced students of Classics, as well as non-specialists interested in the Homeric poems and their journey through centuries.
The Iliad The Odyssey And The Epic Tradition
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Author : Charles Rowan Beye
language : en
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
Release Date : 1966
The Iliad The Odyssey And The Epic Tradition written by Charles Rowan Beye and has been published by Peter Smith Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Epic poetry, Greek categories.
Research into the Homeric epics has considerable enlarged our understanding of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" and the cultures that produced them. The two poems have been studied from every point of view by specialists in a variety of disciplines. Out of this material, [the author has] attempted to draw information that is relevant to any critical understanding of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" as poetry. Therefore, [the author has] tried to give some account of the nature of oral poetry to help the reader formulate an aesthetic different from that which he would employ for literate poetry. Moreover, [the author has] discussed some of the common techniques of oral epic narration so that the reader may more easily notice when Homer is using these often routine devices for effects that are especially pertinent to his poem. -- From preface
Speech Presentation In Homeric Epic
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Author : Deborah Beck
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Speech Presentation In Homeric Epic written by Deborah Beck and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Iliad and the Odyssey are emotional powerhouses largely because of their extensive use of direct speech. Yet this characteristic of the Homeric epics has led scholars to underplay the poems' use of non-direct speech, the importance of speech represented by characters, and the overall sophistication of Homeric narrative as measured by its approach to speech representation. In this pathfinding study by contrast, Deborah Beck undertakes the first systematic examination of all the speeches presented in the Homeric poems to show that Homeric speech presentation is a unified system that includes both direct quotation and non-direct modes of speech presentation. Drawing on the fields of narratology and linguistics, Beck demonstrates that the Iliad and the Odyssey represent speech in a broader and more nuanced manner than has been perceived before, enabling us to reevaluate our understanding of supposedly "modern" techniques of speech representation and to refine our idea of where Homeric poetry belongs in the history of Western literature. She also broadens ideas of narratology by connecting them more strongly with relevant areas of linguistics, as she uses both to examine the full range of speech representational strategies in the Homeric poems. Through this in-depth analysis of how speech is represented in the Homeric poems, Beck seeks to make both the process of their composition and the resulting poems themselves seem more accessible, despite pervasive uncertainties about how and when the poems were put together.