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Author | : Steve Reece |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004174419 |
For over 2500 years many of the most learned scholars of the Greek language have concerned themselves with the topic of etymology. The most productive source of difficult, even inexplicable, words was Homer s 28,000 verses of epic poetry. Steve Reece proposes an approach to elucidating the meanings of some of these difficult words that finds its inspiration primarily in Milman Parry s oral-formulaic theory. He proposes that during the long period of oral transmission acoustic uncertainties, especially regarding word boundaries, were continually occurring: a bard uttered one collocation of words, but his audience thought it heard another. The consequent resegmentation of words and phrases is the probable cause of some of the etymologically inexplicable words in our Homeric texts.
Author | : Jeremy Mynott |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0198713657 |
Birds played an important role in the ancient world: as indicators of time, weather, and seasons; as a resource for hunting, medicine, and farming; as pets and entertainment; as omens and messengers of the gods. Jeremy Mynott explores the similarities and surprising differences between ancient perceptions of the natural world and our own.
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
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Author | : Alice Oswald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Battle casualties |
ISBN | : 9780571274185 |
The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year. James Wood, The New Yorker
Author | : Piero Boitani |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2010-10-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1459605640 |
Flight has always fascinated human minds, but until a century ago it remained a dream - the exclusive domain of birds, gods, and mythological heroes. From the myths of the ancients to the poetry of Pindar and Yeats, Winged Words traces the imprint of the human impulse to fly from premodern times to the age of terrorism in both literature and his...
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Homer Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780365854142 |
Author | : Casey Dué |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780742522190 |
Due (classics, U. of Houston) examines the figure of Briseis, the concubine of Achilles in the Iliad, arguing that her role in the Iliad is greatly compressed, both in relation to the Iliad and the entire tradition of the epic cycle. Her close reading of the text shows how the Iliad refers to expanded and alternative traditions about Briseis even while asserting its own version of her story. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Robert Kanigel |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-04-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0525520945 |
From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric studies." So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a "before" Parry and an "after." Kanigel describes the "before," when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930's, assumed that the Homeric epics were "written" texts, the way we think of most literature; and the "after" that we now live in, where we take it for granted that they are the result of a long and winding oral tradition. Parry made it his life's work to develop and prove this revolutionary theory, and Kanigel brilliantly tells his remarkable story--cut short by Parry's mysterious death by gunshot wound at the age of thirty-three. From UC Berkeley to the Sorbonne to Harvard to Yugoslavia--where he traveled to prove his idea definitively by studying its traditional singers of heroic poetry--we follow Parry on his idiosyncratic journey, observing just how his early notions blossomed into a full-fledged theory. Kanigel gives us an intimate portrait of Parry's marriage to Marian Thanhouser and their struggles as young parents in Paris, and explores the mystery surrounding Parry's tragic death at the Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. Tracing Parry's legacy to the modern day, Kanigel explores how what began as a way to understand the Homeric epics became the new field of "oral theory," which today illuminates everything from Beowulf to jazz improvisation, from the Old Testament to hip-hop.
Author | : Κώστας Μυρσιάδης |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781433108853 |
Approaches to Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' consists of ten original essays on the Iliad and Odyssey by established Homeric scholars and university professors of Greek literature and culture. The anthology offers not only fresh approaches to reading, appreciating, and understanding these Homeric epics, but also attempts to make a case why these works are still relevant in the twenty-first century. Both epics are required reading in most college/university general and world literature courses, as is evident from their inclusion in part or in whole in many standard world literature anthologies. These ten new approaches to the first literary works of Western culture are intended as reading aids for both instructors and students in any college/university classroom in which either of these two Homeric epics are taught.