The Greek Epic Cycle and its ancient reception : a companion /

The poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myths and narratives which took their present form in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The remains of these texts allow us to investigate diachronic...

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Other Authors: Fantuzzi, Marco (Editor), Tsagalis, Christos (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Kyklos, Epic Cycle, and Cyclic poetry Marco Fantuzzi and Christos Tsagalis; Part I. Approaches to the Epic Cycle: 1. Coming adrift: the limits of reconstruction of the Cyclic poems Jonathan Burgess; 2. Oral traditions, written texts, and questions of authorship Gregory Nagy; 3. The Epic Cycle and oral tradition John M. Foley and Justin Arft; 4. The formation of the Epic Cycle Martin L. West; 5. Motif- and source-research: neoanalysis, Homeric and cyclic epic Wolfgang Kullmann; 6. Meta-cyclic epic and Homeric poetry Margalit Finkelberg; 7. Language and meter of the Epic Cycle Alberto BernabĂ©; 8. Narrative techniques in the Epic Cycle Antonios Rengakos; 9. Wit and irony in the Epic Cycle David Konstan; 10. The Trojan war in early Greek art Thomas H. Carpenter; Part II. Epics: 11. Theogony Gianbattista D'alessio; 12. Oedipodea Ettore Cingano; 13. Thebaid Jose; B. Torres-Guerra; 14. Epigonoi Ettore Cingano; 15. Alcmeonis Andrea Debiasi; 16. Cypria Bruno Currie; 17. Aethiopis Antonios Rengakos; 18. Ilias parva Adrian Kelly; 19. Iliou persis Patrick Finglass; 20. Nostoi Georg Danek; 21. Telegony Christos Tsagalis; Part III. Fortune of the Epic Cycle: 22. The aesthetics of sequentiality and its discontents Marco Fantuzzi; 23. The Epic Cycle, Stesichorus, and Ibycus Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi; 24. Pindar's cycle Ian Rutherford; 25. Tragedy and the Epic Cycle Alan Sommerstein; 26. The Hellenistic reception of the Epic Cycle Evina Sistakou; 27. Running rings round Troy: recycling the 'epic circle' in Hellenistic and Roman art Michael Squire; 28. Virgil and the Epic Cycle Ursula Gartner; 29. Ovid and the Epic Cycle Gianpiero Rosati; 30. Statius' Achilleid and the Cypria Charles McNelis; 31. The Epic Cycle and the ancient novel David F. Elmer; 32. The Epic Cycle and Imperial Greek epic Silvio Ba;r and Manuel Baumbach.