Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays

Margalit Finkelberg

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Homer and Early Greek Epic

Collected Essays

Margalit Finkelberg

Volume 89 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671452

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About this book

This collection includes thirty scholarly essays on Homer and Greek epic poetry published by Margalit Finkelberg over the past three decades. The topics discussed reflect the author’s research interests and represent the main directions of her contribution to Homeric studies: Homer's language and diction, archaic Greek epic tradition, Homer's world and values, transmission and reception of the Homeric poems. The book gives special emphasis to some of the central issues in contemporary Homeric scholarship, such as oral-formulaic theory and the role of the individual poet; Neoanalysis and the character of the relationship between Homer and the tradition about the Trojan War; the multi-layered texture of the Homeric poems; the Homeric Question; the canonic status of the Iliad and the Odyssey in antiquity and modernity. All the articles are revised and updated. The book addresses both scholars and advanced students of Classics, as well as non-specialists interested in the Homeric poems and their journey through centuries.

Author / Editor information

Margalit Finkelberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Inhalt Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
List of the original publication venues Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Part I: Language and Diction
1. Is ΚΛΕΟΣ ΑΦΘΙΤΟΝ a Homeric Formula? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Homer’s View of the Epic Narrative: Some Formulaic Evidence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
3. A Note on some Metrical Irregularities in Homer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
4. Formulaic and Nonformulaic Elements in Homer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
5. Homer, a Poet of an Individual Style Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
6. Oral Theory and the Limits of Formulaic Diction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
7. More on ΚΛΕΟΣ ΑΦΘΙΤΟΝ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
8. Late Features in the Speeches of the Iliad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
9. Oral-Formulaic Theory and the Individual Poet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
10. Equivalent Formulae for Zeus in Their Traditional Context Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Part II: Homer and Heroic Tradition
11. The First Song of Demodocus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
12. A Creative Oral Poet and the Muse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
13. How Could Achilles’ Fame Have Been Lost? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
14. The Sources of Iliad 7 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
15. The End of the Heroic Age in Homer, Hesiod and the Cycle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
16. Homer and his Peers: Neoanalysis, Oral Theory, and the Status of Homer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
17. Meta-Cyclic Epic and Homeric Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
18. The Formation of the Homeric Epics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Part III: Homer’s Worlds and Values
19. Royal Succession in Heroic Greece Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
20. Odysseus and the Genus ‘Hero’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
21. Patterns of Human Error in Homer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
22. Timē and Aretē in Homer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
23. Homer and the Bottomless Well of the Past Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
24. Greece in the Eighth Century BCE and the ‘Renaissance’ Phenomenon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
Part IV: Transmission and Reception
25. Ajax’s Entry in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
26. The Cypria, the Iliad, and the Problem of Multiformity in Oral and Written Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
27. Homer as a Foundation Text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
28. ‘She Turns about in the Same Spot and Watches for Orion’: ancient criticism and exegesis of Od. 5.274 = Il. 18.488 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
29. Regional Texts and the Circulation of Books: The Case of Homer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
30. Canonizing and Decanonizing Homer: Reception of the Homeric Poems in Antiquity and Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
31. Homer at the Panathenaia: Some possible Scenarios Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
General index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Index of passages cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classical scholars and all those interested in Homeric poetry.
Pages
- Front matter: 16
- Main content: 402
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Tables: 3
Keywords: Homeric Question; oral-formulaic theory; Neoanalysis

eBook

Published: December 2, 2019
ISBN: 9783110671452

Hardcover

Published: December 2, 2019
ISBN: 9783110671421