Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

Bibliographic Data

ID19907671
EditorsPaola Bassino, Lilah Grace Canevaro, Barbara Graziosi
Year2017
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueConflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781316800034
OpenAlexW2609766143
Open LibraryOL34746426M
ISBN9781316800034
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited4

Achilles inflicts countless agonies on the Achaeans, although he is supposed to be fighting on their side. Odysseus' return causes civil strife on Ithaca. The Iliad and the Odyssey depict conflict where consensus should reign, as do the other major poems of the early Greek hexameter tradition: Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymns describe divine clashes that unbalance the cosmos; Hesiod's Works and Days stems from a quarrel between brothers. These early Greek poems generated consensus among audiences: the reason why they reached us is that people agreed on their value. This volume, accordingly, explores conflict and consensus from a dual perspective: as thematic concerns in the poems, and as forces shaping their early reception. It sheds new light on poetics and metapoetics, internal and external audiences, competition inside the narrative and competing narratives, local and Panhellenic traditions, narrative closure and the making of canonical literature

Art · Hesiod · Literature · Narrative · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Reign · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Conflict (Psychology) in literature · Greek poetry · Greek poetry, history and criticism · Hexameter · History and criticism