Egbert J Bakker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1105872 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Egbert J Bakker |
| PRENOMES | Egbert J |
| SOBRENOME | Bakker |
| ASSINATURA | BAKKER E J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yale University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 144 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Homer
Book IX of the Odyssey is one of the most often read and discussed sections of Homeric poetry. It contains Odysseus' narrative of his encounter with Polyphemus the Cyclops, which not only typifies him as the trickster-hero that he is, but also resonates thematically with later parts of the narrative. This edition provides solid support in reading, understanding, and enjoying this essential episode. The Commentary is designed to be helpful to unde…
Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory
Interformulaic Homer
Oral-formulaic theory sawi nt he Homeric formulas as ystem enabling singers to compose the epic tale while performing before an audience. Everything other than this situation was dismissed as "literate",h ence not relevant for the studyo fH omer as oral poetry.Todayw ea re able to appreciate that "literacy" is not am onolithic concept,b ut culturallyd etermined and embedded. The existence of textsc hanges, but does not end, the nature of Homer as…
How to End theOdyssey
This contribution discusses the plot of the Odyssey as a field of opposing forces shaping the ending of the poem: (i) the generic tension between folktale and epic; (ii) the fundamental ambiguity of the poem’s climactic event, the killing of the Suitors (justice or revenge?); and (iii) the antagonism between Zeus and Poseidon. On this basis two competing scenarios for the ending of the poem are proposed: amnesia and departure, the former viewing …
The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature
This volume explores journeys across time and space in Greek and Latin literature, taking as its starting point the paradigm of travel offered by the epic genre. The epic journey is central to the dynamics of classical literature, offering a powerful lens through which characters, authors, and readers experience their real and imaginary worlds. The journey informs questions of identity formation, narrative development, historical emplotment, and …
In and Out of the Golden Age
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Poetry in Speech
fo r their invitations to present my ideas in their departments.Even though I was supposed to teach, not write, in the Department of Classics of the University of Virginia in 1993 -94, I made much progress during that year, not least because of the graduate seminar I gave there in the winter of 1994, fr om which the writing of Chapters 4 and 5 gained momentum.I thank my colleagues at UV A fo r the opportunities they gave me to discuss my work wit…
Hesiod in Performance
In this interpretation of the Theogony and Works and Days as acts of performance, the well-known biographical details of Hesiod’s life are treated as part of an authorial persona that inheres in the situation that the poem represents. The singer’s dispute with his brother Perses is not a reality outside the poem; rather, it is created, and settled, in and through the poem. The chapter examines the deictic markers through which the poems achieve t…
Poetry in Speech
fo r their invitations to present my ideas in their departments.Even though I was supposed to teach, not write, in the Department of Classics of the University of Virginia in 1993 -94, I made much progress during that year, not least because of the graduate seminar I gave there in the winter of 1994, fr om which the writing of Chapters 4 and 5 gained momentum.I thank my colleagues at UV A fo r the opportunities they gave me to discuss my work wit…
Hector (and) the race horse
Authorship and Greek Song
J.J.H. Klooster, ‘Authenticity and autochthonous traditions in archaic and Hellenistic poetry’. In E. Bakker (ed): Authorship, Authority and Authenticity in Archaic and Classical Greek Song. Proceedings of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song, Vol. 2, Leiden: Brill
Archaic Epigram and the Seal of Theognis
The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey
This comprehensive study of the Odyssey sees in meat and meat consumption a centre of gravitation for the interpretation of the poem. It aims to place the cultural practices represented in the poem against the background of the (agricultural) lived reality of the poem's audiences in the archaic age, and to align the themes of the adventures in Odysseus' wanderings with the events that transpire at Ithaca in the hero's absence. The criminal meat c…
Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey
Particles
Parataxis
Time
Syntax
Pragmatics
This chapter contains sections titled: Deixis in Speech and Text Tense and Temporal Reference Speech and Text Further Reading
A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language
Companion to the Ancient Greek Language
Written Voices, Spoken Signs
Homer, Odysseus, and the Narratology of Performance
Chapter Three. Epic Remembering
A companion to the ancient Greek language
Mycenaean texts : the Linear B tablets / Silvia Ferrara -- Phoinikēia grammata : an alphabet for the Greek language / Roger D. Woodard -- Inscriptions / Rudolph Wachter -- Papyri / Arthur Verhoogt -- The manuscript tradition / Niels Gaul -- Phonology / Philomen Probert -- Morphology and word formation / Michael Weiss -- Semantics and vocabulary / Michael Clarke -- Syntax / Evert van Emde Boas and Luuk Huitink -- Pragmatics : speech and text / Egb…
Brill's Companion to Herodotus
Herodotus’ Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and ‘archaic’, the Histories are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary,…
Remembering the God's Arrival
Remembering the God's Arrival Egbert J. Bakker The Homeric Hymn to Apollo is commonly believed by scholars to consist of two parts, one Delian, dealing with the god's birth and his cult at Delos, and one Pythian, describing the foundation of his shrine at Delphi.1 Stylistic and thematic differences between the two parts are adduced to argue for their separate composition and subsequent joining. The partition is thought to occur at line 181, when …
Poetry in Speech
fo r their invitations to present my ideas in their departments.Even though I was supposed to teach, not write, in the Department of Classics of the University of Virginia in 1993 -94, I made much progress during that year, not least because of the graduate seminar I gave there in the winter of 1994, fr om which the writing of Chapters 4 and 5 gained momentum.I thank my colleagues at UV A fo r the opportunities they gave me to discuss my work wit…
Homeric ΟΥΤΟΣ and the Poetics of Deixis
Peripheral and Nuclear Semantics in Homeric Diction the Case of Dative Expressions for 'Spear
Linguistics and Formulas in Homer
The purpose of this study is to provide a description of the Greek particle per as it occurs in the text of Homer. As such it is a contribution to the study of Ancient Greek in general and of the Greek' particles in particular. But the work transgresses the boundaries of Greek linguistics' proper.First, the discussion of per as a scalar article contributes to the discussion of scalar phenomena in general. Second, as a description of a linguistic …
Long Diphthongs and Hiatus in Early Greek Epic
Foregrounding and indirect discourse
Peripheral and Nuclear Semantics in Homeric Diction the Case of Dative Expressions for 'Spear
Discourse and Performance
W ITHIN THE CHANGING CLIMATE of folklore studies, anthropology, the so cial sciences, and linguistics, the study of oral is gradually increasing in depth, scope, and variety. To the line of research initiated by Milman Parry and Albert Lord that has been known for decades as oral-formulaic theory, a number of new approaches have been added, not necessarily supplanting Parry's original insights, but adding new dimensions to them and placing them i…
Boundaries, Topics, and the Structure of Discourse an Investigation of the Ancient Greek Particle Dé
In this article, a discussion is offered of the Ancient Greek particle dé in terms of boundary-marking. "Boundary" is treated as the manifestation in discourse of the interaction between topicalization and discourse structure. The marking of boundaries, therefore, subsurnes such functions as topic marking and intersentantial (interparagraph) connection. Dé is described as a boundary-marker and is shown to have a function in various types and at v…
The Study of Homeric Discourse
This chapter discusses Homeric poetry within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication. Taking the Homeric text as a transcript of an earlier speech, rather than as a modern text in our sense, the chapter concerns about Homeric discourse as speech, and also discusses a number of salient properties of Homeric style and syntax that are amenable to the analysis applied to spoken language data as practiced in modern discourse analysis. …
Grammar as Interpretation
Looking at its subject from the standpoint of modern discourse analysis, this study deals with problems of style and grammar in Greek and Latin texts. Its aim is to shed light on the interaction between the mechanism of the Greek and Latin languages as interactive tools and the structure of the texts that have come down to us. The interpretive orientation offered differs from most literary studies in its taking linguistic observations as point of…
Verbal Aspect and Mimetic Description in Thucydides
Storytelling in the Future
Homeric ΟΥΤΟΣ and the Poetics of Deixis
General Index
Index of Passages
Preliminary Material
The Making of History
Most readers of Herodotus' work call it History, or the Histories . Any attempt to understand Herodotus' notion of 'history' must start from Herodotus' own use of the term historie in the Proem. Herodotus' Proem, then, displays a curious mixture of old and new. Histories apodexis is usually rendered with such expressions as 'publication of research' or 'public exposition of an inquiry'. The Herodotus that emerges from the discussion of historie a…
Remembering the God's Arrival
Remembering the God's Arrival Egbert J. Bakker The Homeric Hymn to Apollo is commonly believed by scholars to consist of two parts, one Delian, dealing with the god's birth and his cult at Delos, and one Pythian, describing the foundation of his shrine at Delphi.1 Stylistic and thematic differences between the two parts are adduced to argue for their separate composition and subsequent joining. The partition is thought to occur at line 181, when …
Brill's Companion to Herodotus
Herodotus’ Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and ‘archaic’, the Histories are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary,…
Homer as an Oral Tradition
The Homerist’s idea of an oral tradition is necessarily different from that of the students of a living oral tradition. Homer is a text and Homeric orality is a matter of philology. Homerists’ notions of oral tradition will thus be mediated by textuality, and Homer’s orality can only be accessed through those features that survive the song’s transcription. Regardless of the existence of written texts surrounding an epic tradition, the tradition i…
Brill's Companion to Herodotus
The syntax of historiē
He invested his style with all the qualities that his predecessors had failed to acquire. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thuc. 5 Herodotus is an unaccountable phenomenon in the history of literature. J. D. Denniston, Greek Prose Style Herodotus' Histories is a work of startling originality; there are no preexisting categories that capture the work's multifaceted nature. It can be read as historiography (tragic and epic, universal and local), ethn…
Contract and Design
This chapter explores way in which Thucydides presents his The War of Peloponnesians and Athenians in relation to writing. It examines verb's syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in search of an understanding of Thucydides' writing. The chapter explores Loraux's idea of author's self-inscription and subsequent self-effacement by bringing in writing of self-commemorative inscriptions. It addresses question of reader who is confronted with a war that …
The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus
Herodotus' Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known world and much beyond, and it culminates in a detailed account of the Persian Wars of the early fifth century BC. Moreover, research has shown that Herodotus is a sophisticated and at times even ironic narrator, and a pioneer and serious practitioner of historical research at a time when the Greeks' tradi…
La poésie épique grecque
Chapter Three. Epic Remembering
Time, Tense, and Thucydides
This paper discusses the distinction between the aorist and the imperfect in ancient Greek in terms of the temporality of classicism and "fame." The aorist, in focusing on its action's concrete results, can become a link between an achievement and its reception in the future: in the third grammatical person, it represents the voice of the reader who asserts the subject's accomplishment. Imperfects, by contrast, locate an event simply in the past.…
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