Intertextual Agōnes in Archaic Greek Epic
Penelope vs. the Catalogue of Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9307834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas J Nelson (0000-0002-6654-8939, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-57 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic Online (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2405-450X • E-ISSN: 2468-8487 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/24688487-00501002 |
| OpenAlex | W4200585944 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 77 |
Archaic Greek epic exhibits a pervasive eristic intertextuality, repeatedly positioning its heroes and itself against pre-existing traditions. In this article, I focus on a specific case study from the Odyssey : Homer’s agonistic relationship with the Catalogue of Women tradition. Hesiodic-style catalogue poetry has long been recognized as an important intertext for the Nekyia of Odyssey 11, but here I explore a more sustained dialogue across the whole poem. Through an ongoing agōn that sets Odysseus’s wife against catalogic women, Homer establishes the pre-eminence of his heroine and—by extension—the supremacy of his own poem
Ancient Greek · Art · EPIC · Intertextuality · Literature · Poetry · Style (visual arts · Theology · Wife · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
Epos und Zitat
The Hesiodic catalogue of women
Festivals, Symposia, and the Performance of Greek Poetry
Arete’s Words
Meta-Cyclic epic and Homeric poetry
Odyssean stratigraphy
Conflict and Consensus in the Epic Cycle
Intertextuality without text in early Greek epic
Odysseus Polutropos
The Best of the Achaeans
Penelope as Moral Agent
The best of the Achaeans? Odysseus and Achilles in the Odyssey
The Apologos of Odysseus
Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Archaic and Classical Periods
The Formation of the Homeric Epics
Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
The Constraints of Desire
Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry
Inventing Homer
The language of heroes
A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey
Status Warriors
A commentary on Homer's Odyssey
Homer's Catalogue of Women
Greek Mythology and Poetics
Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry
Die Dichterweihe und ihre Symbolik. Untersuchungen zu Hesiodos, Kallimachos, Properz und Ennius
Pindari Carmina cum Fragmentis
Feathers Flying
The "Odyssey" in Athens
The Distaff Side
"The Winged Word. A Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek Oral Composition as Seen Principally through Hesiod's "Works and Days
Gender and Internal Audiences in the Odyssey
Dealing with Ghosts
The Oresteia-Story in the Odyssey
The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle
"Blood and Iron, Stories and Storytelling in Homer's "Odyssey
Penelope Polutropos
Homer and His Peers
The Space of the Epigone in Early Greek Epic
Nautical Matters
Rescuing Creusa. New Methodological Approaches to Women in Antiquity
Penelope's Renown
A Tale of Tydeus
Achilles in the Odyssey
The Names of Homeric Heroes
Female Ethics and Epic Rivalry
Towards an Oral, Intertextual Neoanalysis
The Pandareids and Pandora
Intertextuality without Texts in Archaic Greek Verse and the Plan of Zeus
Regarding Penelope
The Measure of Homer
The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece
The Art and Rhetoric of the Homeric Catalogue
Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence
The Death and Afterlife of Achilles
The best of the Achaeans
Neoanalysis, Orality, and Intertextuality
Pindar and Pan
Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter
Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |