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Archaeology and the Homeric Epic

Author : Susan Sherratt
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785702963
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology and the Homeric Epic written by Susan Sherratt and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and outright rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable of contributing anything at all to our understanding and appreciation of the epics. Archaeology and the Homeric Epic concentrates less on historicity in favor of exploring a variety of other, perhaps sometimes more oblique, ways in which we can use a multidisciplinary approach – archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history – to help offer insights into the epics, the contexts of their possibly prolonged creation, aspects of their 'prehistory', and what they may have stood for at various times in their long oral and written history. The effects of the Homeric epics on the history and popular reception of archaeology, especially in the particular context of modern Germany, is also a theme that is explored here. Contributors explore a variety of issues including the relationships between visual and verbal imagery, the social contexts of epic (or sub-epic) creation or re-creation, the roles of bards and their relationships to different types of patrons and audiences, the construction and uses of 'history' as traceable through both epic and archaeology and the relationship between 'prehistoric' (oral) and 'historical' (recorded in writing) periods. Throughout, the emphasis is on context and its relevance to the creation, transmission, re-creation and manipulation of epic in the present (or near-present) as well as in the ancient Greek past.

Archaeology and Homeric Epic

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ISBN 13 : 9781785702976
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Archaeology and the Homeric Epic

Author : Susan Sherratt
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 178570298X
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Troy

Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140517854X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Troy written by Martin M. Winkler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. The first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. Examines the film’s use of Homer’s Iliad and the myth of the Trojan War, its presentation of Bronze-Age archaeology, and its place in film history. Identifies the modern political overtones of the Trojan War myth as expressed in the film and explains why it found world-wide audiences. Editor and contributors are archaeologists or classical scholars, several of whom incorporate films into their teaching and research. Includes an annotated list of films and television films and series episodes on the Trojan War. Contains archaeological illustrations of Troy, relevant images of ancient art, and stills from films on the Trojan War.

The Cambridge Guide to Homer

Author : Corinne Ondine Pache
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108663621
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Homer written by Corinne Ondine Pache and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.

The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Eric H. Cline
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199760276
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction written by Eric H. Cline and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a combination of archaeological data, textual analysis, and ancient documents, this Very Short Introduction to the Trojan War investigates whether or not the war actually took place, whether archaeologists have correctly identified and been excavating the ancient site of Troy, and what has been found there.

Women of Substance in Homeric Epic

Author : Lilah Grace Canevaro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192560794
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Women of Substance in Homeric Epic written by Lilah Grace Canevaro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Greek epic are treated as objects, as commodities to be exchanged in marriage or as the spoils of warfare. However, women in Homeric epic also use objects to negotiate their own agency, subverting the male viewpoint by utilizing on their own terms the very form they themselves are thought by men to embody. Such female objects can transcend their physical limitations and be both symbolically significant and powerfully characterizing. They can be tools of recognition and identification. They can pause narrative and be used agonistically. They can send messages and be vessels for memory. Women of Substance in Homeric Epic offers a new and insightful approach to the Iliad and Odyssey, bringing together Gender Theory and the burgeoning field of New Materialisms, new to classical studies, and thereby combining an approach predicated on the idea of the woman as object with one which questions the very distinction between subject and object. This productive tension leads us to decentre the male subject and to put centre stage not only the woman as object but also the agency of women and objects. The volume comes at a turning point in the gendering of Homeric studies, with the publication of the first English translations by women of the Iliad in 2015 and the Odyssey in 2017, by Caroline Alexander and Emily Wilson respectively. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship by demonstrating that women in Homeric epic are not only objectified, but are also well-versed users of objects; this is something that Homer portrays clearly, that Odysseus understands, but that has often escaped many other men, from Odysseus' alter-ego Aethon in Odyssey 19 to modern experts on Homeric epic.

Digging for Troy

Author : Jill Rubalcaba
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580893260
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Digging for Troy written by Jill Rubalcaba and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the lost city of Troy and the efforts it took to rediscover it.

Ancient Greece

Author : Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748627294
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greece written by Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization around 1200 BC and the dawning of the classical era four and half centuries later is widely known as the Dark Age of Greece, not least in the eponymous history by A. M. Snodgrass published by EUP in 1971, and reissued by the Press in 2000.In January 2003 distinguished scholars from all over the world gathered in Edinburgh to re-examine old and new evidence on the period. The subjects of their papers were chosen in advance by the editors so that taken together they would cover the field. This book, based on thirty-three of the presentations, will constitute the most fundamental reinterpretation of the period for 30 years. The authors take issue with the idea of a Greek Dark Age and everything it implies for the understanding of Greek history, culture and society. They argue that the period is characterised as much by continuity as disruption and that the evidence from every source shows a progression from Mycenaean kingship to the conception of aristocratic nobility in the Archaic period. The volume is divided into six parts dealing with political and social structures; questions of continuity and transformation; international and inter-regional relations; religion and hero cult; Homeric epics and heroic poetry; and the archaeology of the Greek regions. Copiously illustrated and with a collated bibliography, itself a valuable resource, this book is likely to be the essential and basic source of reference on the later phases of the Mycenaean and the Early Greek Iron Ages for many years.

A New Companion to Homer

Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004217606
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A New Companion to Homer written by Ian Morris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first English-language survey of Homeric studies to appear for more than a generation, and the first such work to attempt to cover all fields comprehensively. Thirty leading scholars from Europe and America provide short, authoritative overviews of the state of knowledge and current controversies in the many specialist divisions in Homeric studies. The chapters pay equal attention to literary, mythological, linguistic, historical, and archaeological topics, ranging from such long-established problems as the "Homeric Question" to newer issues like the relevance of narratology and computer-assisted quantification. The collection, the third publication in Brill's handbook series, The Classical Tradition, will be valuable at every level of study - from the general student of literature to the Homeric specialist seeking a general understanding of the latest developments across the whole range of Homeric scholarship.

The Iliad [Abridged]

Author : Homer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981816289
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Iliad [Abridged] written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mycenaean World

Author : John Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521290371
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Mycenaean World written by John Chadwick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976-03-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Chadwick summarizes the results of research into Mycenaean Greece.

Approaches to Homer

Author : Carl A. Rubino
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292767870
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Homer written by Carl A. Rubino and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Homeric scholarship is distinguished by a dazzling diversity of approaches. That diversity is brilliantly displayed in this volume, in which nine well-known classicists approach the Homeric poems from the various perspectives of archaeology, economic history, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, and Byzantine history. Several essays are primarily concerned with what the Homeric poems teach us about the past. Richard Hope Simpson, for example, reviews the controversy sparked by his and John F. Lazenby's 1970 argument that the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad accurately reflects the geography of Mycenean Greece. Using archaeology as just one of his starting points, Gregory Nagy reflects upon the death and funeral of Sarpedon as described in the Iliad. Our understanding of the word áté is enhanced by E. D. Francis, who closely examines its prehistory. Norman Austin's elegant and original discussion of tone in the Odyssey's Cyclops tale is animated by both psychoanalytic theory and his work with two practitioners of optometric visual training. Writing of Odysseus, James M. Redfield dubs that hero "the economic man" and links certain tensions in the Odyssey to the actual economic concerns of Greece in the late eighth century BC. Both Ann L. T. Bergren and Mabel L. Lang concern themselves with problems of narrative in the Homeric epics. Like Hope Simpson, C. J. Rowe updates a controversy—in this instance, the many objections raised to Arthur Adkins' influential 1960 study of moral values in Homer. Gareth Morgan provides a fascinating glimpse of the Homeric scholarship of another day by focusing on the work of the astonishing John Tzetzes in twelfth-century Byzantium.

Science and Technology in Homeric Epics

Author : S. A. Paipetis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402087837
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Science and Technology in Homeric Epics written by S. A. Paipetis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-22 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included. Even if those features of Homeric science were just poetic concepts (which on many occasions does not explain the astonishing details of design and manufacture, like the ones included in the present volume), they seem to prove that these achievements were well within human capability. In addition, the substantial development of machine theory during the early post-Homeric age shows that the Homeric descriptions were a kind of prophetic conception of these machines, and scientific research must be a quest for the fundamental principles of knowledge available during the Late Bronze Age and the dawn of the Iron Age. Such investigations must of necessity be strongly interdisciplinary and also proceed continuously in time, since, as science progresses, new elements of knowledge are discovered in the Homeric Epics, amenable to scientific analysis. This book brings together papers presented at the international symposium Science and Technology in Homeric Epics, which took place at Ancient Olympia in 2006. It includes a total of 41 contributions, mostly original research papers, covering diverse fields of science and technology, in the modern sense of these words.

The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle

Author : Jonathan S. Burgess
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 080187890X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle written by Jonathan S. Burgess and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-01-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a challenge to Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger context of the entire body of Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age.

From Hittite to Homer

Author : Mary R. Bachvarova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521509793
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book From Hittite to Homer written by Mary R. Bachvarova and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.

Epos

Author : Sarah P. Morris
Publisher : Peeters
ISBN 13 : 9781935488217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Epos written by Sarah P. Morris and published by Peeters. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsI. EPOS AND LOGOS: HOMER AND TROY- Malcolm WIENER, Homer and History: Old Questions, New Evidence- Marianna NIKOLAIDOU and Dimitra KOKKINIDOU, Epos, History, Metahistory in Aegean Bronze Age Studies- Maureen BASEDOW, Troy without Homer: the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition in the Troad- Sarah P. MORRIS, Troy Between Bronze and Iron Ages: Myth, Cult and Memory in a Sacred LandscapeII. EPOS AND EIKON: ART, POETRY AND WRITING- John YOUNGER, The Mycenaean Bard: The Evidence for Sound and Song- Robert LAFFINEUR, Homeric Similes: A Bronze Age Background?- Edmund F. BLOEDOW, Homer and the depas amphikypellon- L. Vance WATROUS, The Fleet Fresco, the Odyssey and Greek Epic Narrative- Andreas VLACHOPOULOS, Mythos, Logos and Eikon. Motifs of Early Greek Poetry in the Wall Paintings of Xeste 3 III. WANAX AND BASILEUS: RULERSHIP IN HOMER AND ARCHAEOLOGY- Pierre CARLIER, Are the Homeric Basileis ¿Big Men'? - Thomas G. PALAIMA, Mycenaean Society and Kingship: Cui Bono? A Counter-Speculative View- Bryan E. BURNS, Epic Reconstructions: Homeric Palaces and Mycenaean Architecture- Brendan BURKE, Gordion of Midas and the Homeric Age- Eric H. CLINE and Assaf YASUR-LANDAU, Poetry in Motion: Canaanite Rulership and Minoan Narrative Art at Tel KabriIV. BEYOND ELITE: HOMERIC SOCIETY AND ARCHAEOLOGY- Kim S. SHELTON, Foot Soldiers and Cannon Fodder: The Underrepresented Majority of the Mycenaean Civilization- Helene WHITTAKER, Sacrificial Practice and Warfare in Homer and in the Bronze Age- Andrea GUZETTI, Homer and the Dorians: The Reasons For a Missed EncounterV. EPOS AND MYTHOS- Ernestine S. ELSTER, Odysseys Before Homer: Trade, Travel, and Adventure in Prehistoric Greece - Cynthia S. COLBURN, The Symbolic Significance of Distance in the Homeric Epics and the Bronze Age Aegean- Fritz BLAKOLMER, The Silver Battle Krater from Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae: Evidence of Fighting ¿Heroes¿ on Minoan Palace Walls at Knossos?- Massimo PERNA, Homer and the ¿Folded Wooden Tablets¿VI. EPOS AND TOPOS: HOMERIC LANDSCAPES- Oliver DICKINSON, Aspects of Homeric Geography- Philip P. BETANCOURT, The Amnissos Cave: Poetry Meets Reality- Aleydis VAN DE MOORTEL, The Site of Mitrou and East Lokris in ¿Homeric Times¿- Anne P. CHAPIN and Louise A. HITCHCOCK, Homer and Laconian Topography: This Is What the Book Says, and This Is What the Land Tells Us - Naya SGOURITSA, Myth, Epos and Mycenaean Attica: The Evidence Reconsidered