Songs of Homer

Name: Songs of Homer
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ISBN: 9780521619189

ISBN-10: 0521619181

ISBN-13: 9780521619189

Edition: 2005

Authors: G. S. Kirk

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The literature of the western world begins with one of its greatest achievements. The stories of the wrath of Achilles and its consequences, and of the wanderings of Odysseus, have been admired from ancient times to the present day. The two great epics can be read and enjoyed, unreflectingly, as tales of adventure; or they can be studied as literature, yielding, as insight and understanding grow, a deeper and more permanent pleasure. Professor Kirk's book is the means to this pleasure. It is a vivid and comprehensive account of the background and development of the Homeric poems and of their quality as literature. The epics are seen primarily as oral poetry, sung for centuries by illiterate…

Book details

List price: $65.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.46" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




The Historical Background of the Homeric Poems



The rise of Mycenae



The Linear B tablets and life in a late Mycenaean palace-state



From the Mycenaean decline to the time of Homer



The Oral Poet and his Methods



Introductory



Heroic Age and heroic poetry



The language of formulas in Homer



The oral tradition and the advent of writing



The oral poet's use of established themes



Originality and the formular method



The comparative study of the oral epic in Yugoslavia



The life-cycle of an oral tradition



Oral dictated texts



The Growth of the Oral Epic in Greece



The evidence for Mycenaean epic



The poetical possibilities of the Dark Age



Dark Age elements and Aeolic elements



Plurality and Unity in Homer



Subjects and styles



The cultural and linguistic amalgam



The archaeological criterion



The criterion of language



Structural anomalies in the Iliad



Structural anomalies in the Odyssey



The overriding unity



The Development and Transmission of the Great Poems



The circumstances of Homeric composition



'Homer' and his region



Audiences and occasions



The date of the poems



The relationship of the Iliad and Odyssey



The crucial phases of transmission



Stages of development



The Songs and their Qualities



The Iliad



The Odyssey



Man, fate and action: some special qualities of the Homeric poems