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Nine Essays on Homer (Paperback)
Miriam Carlisle, Olga Levaniouk; Foreword by Gregory Nagy; Contributions by Brian W Breed, Mary Ebbott, …
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The essays in this collection addresses questions of intense
interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and
poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized
performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; the ways in which
epic incorporates material of diverse genres, such as women's
laments, blame poetry, or folk tales; how the ideological balance
of epic can change and be influenced by 'alternative ideologies'
introduced through the incorporation of new material; the
implications of the continuity of tradition for etymological
studies; and how the traditional nature of epic affects textual
criticism. The essays differ in focus and method, but all share one
fundamental approach to Homer: an understanding of the Homeric
tradition as a poetic system that expresses and preserves what is
culturally important and a view of the Homeric epics as instances
of a cultural tradition which they attempt to explore through the
epics themselves and through the comparative, anthropological, and
linguistic evidence they bring to bear on these texts. A unique
collection that explores Homeric poetry through a variety of tools
and approaches linguistics, philology, cultural anthropology,
sociology, textual criticism, and archeology this volume will be of
interest to all scholars and students of oral poetry and Classical
literature.
This volume considers linguistic, cultural, and literary trends
that fed into the creation of Roman satire in second-century BC
Rome. Combining approaches drawn from linguistics, Roman history,
and Latin literature, the chapters share a common purpose of
attempting to assess how Lucilius' satires functioned in the social
environment in which they were created and originally read.
Particular areas of focus include audiences for satire, the mixing
of varieties of Latin in the satires, and relationships with other
second-century genres, including comedy, epic, and oratory.
Lucilius' satires emerged at a time when Rome's new status as an
imperial power and its absorption of influences from the Greek
world were shaping Roman identity. With this in mind the book
provides new perspectives on the foundational identification of
satire with what it means to be Roman and satire's unique status as
'wholly ours' tota nostra among Latin literary genres.
Virgil's "Eclogues" represent the introduction of a new genre,
pastoral, to Latin literature. Generic markers of pastoral in the
"Eclogues" include not only the representation of the singing and
speaking of shepherd characters, but also the learned density of
the text itself. Here, Brian W. Breed examines the tension between
representations of orality in Virgil's pastoral world and the
intense textuality of his pastoral poetry. The book argues that
separation between speakers and their language in the "Eclogues" is
not merely pastoral preciosity. Rather, it shows how Virgil uses
representations of orality as the point of comparison for measuring
both the capacity and the limitations of the "Eclogues" as a
written text that will be encountered by reading audiences. The
importance of genre is considered both in terms of how pastoral
might be defined for the particular literary-historical moment in
which Virgil was writing and in light of the subsequent European
pastoral tradition.
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