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Achilles Unbound - Multiformity and Tradition in the Homeric Epics (Paperback)
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Achilles Unbound - Multiformity and Tradition in the Homeric Epics (Paperback)
Series: Hellenic Studies Series
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Though Achilles the character is bound by fate and by narrative
tradition, Achilles's poem, the Iliad, was never fixed and
monolithic in antiquity-it was multiform. And the wider epic
tradition, from which the Iliad emerged, was yet more multiform. In
Achilles Unbound, Casey Due, building on nearly twenty years of
work as coeditor of the Homer Multitext (www.homermultitext.org),
explores both the traditionality and multiformity of the Iliad in a
way that gives us a greater appreciation of the epic that has been
handed down to us. Due argues that the attested multiforms of the
Iliad-in ancient quotations, on papyrus, and in the scholia of
medieval manuscripts-give us glimpses of the very long history of
the text, access to even earlier Iliads, and a greater awareness of
the mechanisms by which such a remarkable poem could be composed in
performance. Using methodologies grounded in an understanding of
Homeric poetry as a system, Achilles Unbound argues for nothing
short of a paradigm shift in our approach to the Homeric epics, one
that embraces their long evolution and the totality of the world of
epic song, in which each performance was newly composed and
received by its audience.
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