Jonathan S Burgess
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5626523 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jonathan S Burgess |
| NOMBRES | Jonathan S |
| APELLIDO | Burgess |
| FIRMA | BURGESS J S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Aristotelian Constitution of the Ithacans and Homero-Cyclic Reception of the Odyssey
Aristotle’s Constitution of the Ithacans is lost, but testimony of it survives. Most interesting is an account by Plutarch (Quaest. Graec. 14; fr. 507 Rose) of the exile of Odysseus after the slaughter of the suitors. In both Aristotle and Apollodorus political intrigue in the area of the Ionian Islands seems to underlie the exile. The acceptance of a story of Odysseus’ exile by the Constitution suggests that historical Ithacans claimed descent f…
The Measure of Homer
Reviewed by: The Measure of Homer: The Ancient Reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey by Richard Hunter Jonathan S. Burgess Richard Hunter. The Measure of Homer: The Ancient Reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x, 254. $44.99. ISBN 978-1-108-42831-6. Referring to his recent monographs on Hesiod and Plato, Hunter describes this book as completing a "trilogy" on foundational literature. The author…
The Corpse of Odysseus
The topic is the burial of the corpse of Odysseus at Aeaea in the Telegony . I argue that in the Cyclic epic the corpse is buried at an Aeaea localized in Italy. The prophecy of Tiresias in Odyssey 11 may allude to some version of the Telegonus story, but the Homeric epic largely discounts such epichoric legends about Odysseus. Correspondences and differences between the Odyssey and the Telegony result from independent self-positioning within tra…
Achilles Unbound
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS Achilles Unbound: Multiformity and Tradition in the Homeric Epics. By Casey Du e. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. 2019. Pp. xiii, 204. ACHILLES UNBOUND by Casey Dué gathers evidence for the multiform nature of Homeric poetry. The inspiration for many of the arguments is the Homer Multitext Project based at the Center for Hellenic Studies, which is painstakingly producing an online edition of Homer that fo…
The Apologos of Odysseus
Land and Sea in the Odyssey and the Telegony
Homeric Epic and Its Reception
Reviewed by: Homeric Epic and Its Reception: Interpretive Essays by Seth L. Schein Jonathan Burgess Seth L. Schein. Homeric Epic and Its Reception: Interpretive Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiii, 225. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-19-958941-8. This collection of essays composed over more than four decades holds together remarkably well, though the range is certainly wide, from close reading of small-scale lexical matters to broader t…
The Tale of Meleager in the Iliad
The Tale of Meleager in the Iliad Jonathan Burgess (bio) I employ narratology and oral theory in a close reading of Phoenix's tale of the Kalydonian hero Meleager in Book 9 of the Iliad to clarify the function of this embedded narrative within the Homeric epic. Phoenix compares Achilles to Meleager, and the crux of the analogy—angry withdrawal from battle—has tempted some in the past to suppose that a pre-Homeric epic about an angry Meleager was …
The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception
The poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myths and narratives which took their present form in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The remains of these texts allow us to investigate diachronic aspects of epic diction as well as the extent of variation within it on the part of individual authors - two of the most important questions in modern…
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece by Kirk Ormand (review)
Reviewed by: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece by Kirk Ormand Jonathan S. Burgess Kirk Ormand. The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 265. $90.00. ISBN 978–1-107–03519–5. Despite the rather general title, this book focuses on the divided loyalties of brides to father and husband, as illustrated by several myths narrated in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. It is argue…
Homer
What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central paradox of ‘Homer’ is that- while recognized as producing poetry of incomparable genius- even in the ancien world nobody knew who he was. As a result, the myth-maker became the subject of myth. For the satirist Lucian (c.125-180 CE) he ws a captive Babylon…
Cycle, Epic
Ilion
Skyros
A ulis
Iconography, Early
Leukadian Rock
Telephos
Ilos (2)
Scaean Gates
Tenedos
Antenor
Cypria
Judgment of P aris
The Death of Odysseus in the Odyssey and the Telegony
The Death and Afterlife of Achilles
Achilles' death-by an arrow shot through the vulnerable heel of the otherwise invincible mythic hero-was as well known in antiquity as the rest of the history of the Trojan War. However, this important event was not described directly in either of the great Homeric epics, the Iliad or the Odyssey. Noted classics scholar Jonathan S. Burgess traces the story of Achilles as represented in other ancient sources in order to offer a deeper understandin…
Neoanalysis, Orality, and Intertextuality
Neoanalysis, Orality, and Intertextuality: An Examination of Homeric Motif Transference Jonathan Burgess University of Toronto As with other schools of thought in Homeric research, neoanalysis has experienced experimentation and change. 1 Neoanalysts have slowly become aware of points of contact between their methodology and an oralist approach, and recently some oralists have enthusiastically accepted the compatibility of the two schools of thou…
Beyond Neo-Analysis
Beyond Neo-Analysis: Problems with the Vengeance Theory Jonathan Burgess Neo-analysis has attracted much attention in Homeric studies recently. 1 Modified by oral theory, it can usefully illuminate the mythical traditions in which the poet of the Iliad worked. Yet I believe that an idea central to many neo-analytical studies is flawed. This idea, which I call the "vengeance theory," is that the Iliad is modeled on a story of Achilles slaying Memn…
Early Images of Achilles and Memnon
JN EO-ANALYSTS have persuasively argued that the Iliad indirectly demon strates knowledge of the duel between Achilles and Memnon.1 Yet the Aethiopis, the Epic Cycle poem that narrates their duel, is usually thought to be later than the Homeric poems,2 and undoubted representations of Memnon begin only in the sixth century. A skeptic might therefore con sider the encounter between Achilles and Memnon a post-Iliadic inven tion.3 But mythological i…
The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle
"Much of our understanding of the mythological tradition surrounding the Trojan War comes from Homer. Although the Iliad and Odyssey describe only the last years of this conflict, for centuries these works have been the primary source for literary and scholarly inspiration. They have largely overshadowed other Trojan War narratives, particularly the poems collectively known as the Epic Cycle, which chronicle the whole conflict. Although the Epic …
The Death of Odysseus in the Odyssey and the Telegony
The Corpse of Odysseus
The topic is the burial of the corpse of Odysseus at Aeaea in the Telegony . I argue that in the Cyclic epic the corpse is buried at an Aeaea localized in Italy. The prophecy of Tiresias in Odyssey 11 may allude to some version of the Telegonus story, but the Homeric epic largely discounts such epichoric legends about Odysseus. Correspondences and differences between the Odyssey and the Telegony result from independent self-positioning within tra…
The Tale of Meleager in the Iliad
The Tale of Meleager in the Iliad Jonathan Burgess (bio) I employ narratology and oral theory in a close reading of Phoenix's tale of the Kalydonian hero Meleager in Book 9 of the Iliad to clarify the function of this embedded narrative within the Homeric epic. Phoenix compares Achilles to Meleager, and the crux of the analogy—angry withdrawal from battle—has tempted some in the past to suppose that a pre-Homeric epic about an angry Meleager was …
Beyond Neo-Analysis
Beyond Neo-Analysis: Problems with the Vengeance Theory Jonathan Burgess Neo-analysis has attracted much attention in Homeric studies recently. 1 Modified by oral theory, it can usefully illuminate the mythical traditions in which the poet of the Iliad worked. Yet I believe that an idea central to many neo-analytical studies is flawed. This idea, which I call the "vengeance theory," is that the Iliad is modeled on a story of Achilles slaying Memn…
Coronis Aflame
The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle
Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of the Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age
Kyprias, the "Kypria", and Multiformity
THE SHADOWY EXISTENCE OF THE HALIKARNASSIAN POET KYPRIAS, previously known only through obscure or corrupt testimony, was substantiated by the discovery in 1995 of a lengthy inscription at Bodrum.1 About sixty lines of elegiac verse dating from the Hellenistic period sing the praises of Halikarnassos. A list of literary figures nurtured by the city includes a reference to Kyprias as the composer ofIliaka
The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle
"Much of our understanding of the mythological tradition surrounding the Trojan War comes from Homer. Although the Iliad and Odyssey describe only the last years of this conflict, for centuries these works have been the primary source for literary and scholarly inspiration. They have largely overshadowed other Trojan War narratives, particularly the poems collectively known as the Epic Cycle, which chronicle the whole conflict. Although the Epic …
Early Images of Achilles and Memnon
JN EO-ANALYSTS have persuasively argued that the Iliad indirectly demon strates knowledge of the duel between Achilles and Memnon.1 Yet the Aethiopis, the Epic Cycle poem that narrates their duel, is usually thought to be later than the Homeric poems,2 and undoubted representations of Memnon begin only in the sixth century. A skeptic might therefore con sider the encounter between Achilles and Memnon a post-Iliadic inven tion.3 But mythological i…
The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle
Approaches to Homer, Ancient and Modern
Neoanalysis, Orality, and Intertextuality
Neoanalysis, Orality, and Intertextuality: An Examination of Homeric Motif Transference Jonathan Burgess University of Toronto As with other schools of thought in Homeric research, neoanalysis has experienced experimentation and change. 1 Neoanalysts have slowly become aware of points of contact between their methodology and an oralist approach, and recently some oralists have enthusiastically accepted the compatibility of the two schools of thou…
The Death and Afterlife of Achilles
Achilles' death-by an arrow shot through the vulnerable heel of the otherwise invincible mythic hero-was as well known in antiquity as the rest of the history of the Trojan War. However, this important event was not described directly in either of the great Homeric epics, the Iliad or the Odyssey. Noted classics scholar Jonathan S. Burgess traces the story of Achilles as represented in other ancient sources in order to offer a deeper understandin…
Cycle, Epic
Ilion
Skyros
A ulis
Iconography, Early
Leukadian Rock
Telephos
Ilos (2)
Scaean Gates
Tenedos
Antenor
Cypria
Judgment of P aris
Antilochos
Memnon
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