The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception

A Companion

Bibliographic Data

ID19927136
AuthorsChrēstos K ca /21 Jh Tsangalēs, Jonathan S Burgess, Gregory Nagy, John Miles Foley, M L West, Wolfgang Kullmann, Margalit Finkelberg (0000-0003-1957-9094), Alberto Bernabé (0000-0002-7228-735X), Antonios Rengakos, David Konstan (0000-0002-7264-8952), T H Carpenter, Giambattista D’Alessio (0000-0002-8714-8774), Ettore Cingano, José B Torres-Guerra, Andrea Debiasi, Bruno Currie (0000-0003-2509-0965), Adrian Kelly (0000-0002-5053-7397), P J Fingla (0000-0001-6654-6602), Georg Danek
EditorsMarco Fantuzzi (0000-0002-3721-2002), Christos Tsagalis (0000-0003-1394-6076)
Year2015
Publication date2015-08-06
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueGreek Epic Cycle and Its Ancient Reception (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511998409
OpenAlexW2177018892
Open LibraryOL28553858M
ISBN9780511998409
LanguageEN
Citations received56

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 research on archaic epic. They also help to illuminate the early history of Greek mythology. Access to the poems, however, has been thwarted by their current fragmentary state. This volume provides the scholarly community and graduate students with a thorough critical foundation for reading and interpreting them

Ancient Greek · Art · Diction · EPIC · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Poetry · Reading (process) · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Philosophy · Ancient, Classical & Medieval · Cycles (Literature) · Epic poetry · Epic poetry, history and criticism · Greek Epic poetry · Greek poetry · Greek poetry, history and criticism · History and criticism · Literary collections · Lost literature