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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816865203321

Autore

Burgess Jonathan S. <1960->

Titolo

The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan S. Burgess

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-8018-7481-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

883/.01

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism

Trojan War - Literature and the war

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Literature and history - Greece

Lost literature - Greece

Cycles (Literature)

Troy (Extinct city) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: ONE -- The Epic Cycle and the Tradition of the Trojan War 7 -- Origins of the Cycle Poems -- The Manufacture of the Epic Cycle -- The "Cyclic" Tradition of the Trojan War -- "Cyclic" Trojan War Images -- Later Manifestations -- TWO -- Homer and the Tradition of the Trojan War 47 -- "Cyclic"Myth in the Homeric Poems -- The Date of the Homeric Poems -- Iliadic Images -- Cyclops: Image and Folktale -- Homeric Passages -- THREE -- The Epic Cycle and Homer 132 -- Cropping around the Homeric Poems -- Extent of the Cycle Poems -- Homeric Influence on the Epic Cycle? -- Non-HomericAspects of the Epic Cycle.