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Archaeology and Homeric Epic (Paperback)
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Archaeology and Homeric Epic (Paperback)
Series: Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology
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The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long
suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts
to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential
historicity of the epics and their background, and outright
rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable of contributing
anything at all to our understanding and appreciation of the epics.
Archaeology and the Homeric Epic concentrates less on historicity
in favour of exploring a variety of other, perhaps sometimes more
oblique, ways in which we can use a multi-disciplinary approach -
archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history - to help
offer insights into the epics, the contexts of their possibly
prolonged creation, aspects of their 'prehistory', and what they
may have stood for at various times in their long oral and written
history. The effects of the Homeric epics on the history and
popular reception of archaeology, especially in the particular
context of modern Germany, is also a theme that is explored here.
Contributors explore a variety of issues including the
relationships between visual and verbal imagery, the social
contexts of epic (or sub-epic) creation or re-creation, the roles
of bards and their relationships to different types of patrons and
audiences, the construction and uses of 'history' as traceable
through both epic and archaeology and the relationship between
'prehistoric' (oral) and 'historical' (recorded in writing)
periods. Throughout, the emphasis is on context and its relevance
to the creation, transmission, re-creation and manipulation of epic
in the present (or near-present) as well as in the ancient Greek
past.
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