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Homer's Allusive Art (Hardcover)
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Homer's Allusive Art (Hardcover)
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What kind of allusion is possible in a poetry derived from a
centuries-long oral tradition, and what kind of oral-derived poetry
are the Homeric epics? Comparison of Homeric epic with South Slavic
heroic song has suggested certain types of answers to these
questions, yet the South Slavic paradigm is neither straightforward
in itself nor necessarily the only pertinent paradigm: Augustan
Latin poetry uses many sophisticated and highly self-conscious
techniques of allusion which can, this book contends, be
suggestively paralleled in Homeric epic, and some of the same
techniques of allusion can be found in Near Eastern poetry of the
third and second millennia BC. By attending to these various
paradigms, this challenging study argues for a new understanding of
Homeric allusion and its place in literary history, broaching the
question of whether there can have been historical continuity in a
poetics of allusion stretching from the Mesopotamian epic of
Gilgamesh, via the Iliad and Odyssey, to the Aeneid and
Metamorphoses, despite the enormous disparities of time and place
and of language and culture, including those represented by the
cuneiform tablet, the papyrus roll, and by an oral performance
culture. The fundamental methodological problems are explored
through a series of interlocking case studies, treating of how the
Odyssey conceivably alludes to the Iliad and also to earlier poetry
on Odysseus' homecoming, the Iliad to earlier poetry on the
Ethiopian hero Memnon, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter to earlier
poetry on Hades' abduction of Persephone, and early Greek epic to
Mesopotamian mythological poetry, pre-eminently the Babylonian epic
of Gilgamesh.
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