The Epic Cycle
A Commentary on the Lost Troy Epics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9298308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M L West (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 334 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The epic cycle (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199662258.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4253365122 |
| Open Library | OL28389958M |
| ISBN | 9780199662258 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
The Iliad and Odyssey do not cover the main story of the Trojan War. The whole saga, which includes Zeus' plan to reduce the world's population, the Judgment of Paris and seduction of Helen, the start of the campaign, the Wooden Horse, the fall of Achilles, the homecoming of Agamemnon, and the eventual death of Odysseus, was related in six other epics, dating from 630–560 bce, that were influential for lyric poets, tragedians, and artists of the classical age but are known to us only through fragments and brief prose summaries. This book presents all the source material and provides a commentary on it, making full use of iconographic as well as literary evidence. Discussing the individual fragments and testimonia, it endeavours to reconstruct the connections between them, so far as possible, and to build up a picture of the plan and course of each poem. The Introduction addresses general issues, including the nature and formation of the Epic Cycle, the status of the summaries of the Troy epics preserved under the name of Proclus, the validity of the attested ascriptions to particular poets, the reflexes of the Cycle in early art and literature, and its fortunes in and after the Hellenistic period
Art · Art history · EPIC · Hesiod · Homecoming · Literature · Mythology · Period (music · Poetry · Population · Sociology · Wizard · ZEUS (particle detector · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy · Antike · Cycles (Literature) · Epik · Epischer Kyklos · Greek · Greek Epic poetry · History and criticism · in literature · Literature and the war · Mythology, in literature · Troja · Trojan War · Trojan war, literature and the war
Achilles Beside Gilgamesh
Music and Dance in Tragedy After the Fifth Century
The Tragedians of Heraclea and Comedians of Sinope
Hellenistic Tragedy and Satyr-Drama; Lycophron’s Alexandra
Beyond Athens
The Exagōgē of Ezekiel the Tragedian
Theatre Performance After the Fifth Century
The Rhesus
The Phanagoria Chous
Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century
Introduction
Theatre and Performance in the Bosporan Kingdom
The Northward Advance of Greek Horizons
Celebrating Dionysus in Istros and Tomis
The Fifth Century and After
Scholars and Scholarship on Tragedy
Epilogue
Black Sea Back Story
Fragmentary Greek Tragedies Set in the Black Sea
Ancient Theatre in Tauric Chersonesus
Historiography and Theatre
Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World
Homer
Society and Politics in Post-Fifth-Century Tragedy
Paratheatrical Performances in the Bosporan Kingdom
Theatre at Olbia in the Black Sea
Attitudes Towards Tragedy from the Second Sophistic to Late Antiquity
Greek Tragedy in the Fourth Century
Gli eroi del Trono di Apollo ad Amicle tra apoteosi, immortalità elisia e destino di morte
Introductory Formulas in the Catalogue of Men of Odyssey 11
A cruel and pointless trick? False non-closure in Horace’s Odes
A Judgment of Parodies? ‘Momus’ on a Black-Figure Hydria in Chicago
Anatolian-Karian Versus Greek
Les ânes chez Ulysse
The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic
Herodotus
Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture Around the Black Sea
The Cambridge Guide to Homer
Herodotus
Oppian's Halieutica
Racialized Commodities
Scale, space and canon in ancient literary culture
For Whom Hesperus Shines
Maecenas and the Stage
Renaissance Homer and Wedding Chests
Lycophron, ἄρδις, and the Death of Paris
How Did Homer's Troilus Die
Pindar, Nemean 3.36
Sappho 44
Beyond the ‚Invention of Athens‘. The 5 th century Athenian „Tatenkatalog“ as example of ,Intentional History‘
When Homer Quotes Callimachus
Dearness and death in the Iliad
Persuasion, rhetoric and Roman poetry
Mutilation of the Dead and the Homeric Gods
The myth of Iphigenia in fourth-century funerary vases of southern Italy
| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 55 |