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The Art and Rhetoric of the Homeric Catalogue (Hardcover)
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The Art and Rhetoric of the Homeric Catalogue (Hardcover)
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In The Art and Rhetoric of the Homeric Catalogue, Benjamin Sammons
takes a fresh look at a familiar element of the Homeric epics --
the poetic catalogue. This study uncovers the great variety of
functions fulfilled by the catalogue as a manner of speech within
very different contexts, ranging from celebrated examples such as
the poet's famous "Catalogue of Ships," to others less commonly
treated under this rubric, such as catalogues within the speech and
rhetoric of Homer's characters. Sammons shows that catalogue poetry
is no ossified or primitive relic of the old tradition, but a
living subgenre of poetry that is used by Homer in a creative and
original way. He finds that catalogues may be used by the poet or
his characters to reflect -- or distort -- the themes of the poem
at large, to impose an interpretation on events as they unfold, and
possibly to allude to competing poetic traditions or even
contemporaneous poems. Throughout, the study focuses on how Homer
uses his catalogue to talk about the epic genre itself: to explore
the boundaries of the heroic world, the limits of heroic glory, and
the ideals and realities of his own traditional role as an epic
bard. Building on a renewed interest in the "literary list" in
other disciplines, Sammons shows that Homer is not only one of the
earliest known practitioners of the poetic catalogue, but one of
the subtlest and most skillful.
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