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Mythologizing Performance.

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Building on numerous original close readings of works by Homer, Hesiod, and other ancient Greek poets, Richard P. Martin articulates a broad and precise poetics of archaic Greek verse. The ancient Greek hexameter poetry of such works as the Iliad and the Odyssey differ from most modern verbal art be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin, Richard P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cornell University Press 2025.
Subjects:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
oral performance, speech-acts, Orpheus, Homer, Hesiod.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Series Foreword
  • Volume Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Epic Genre and Technique
  • 1. Epic as Genre
  • 2. Similes and Performance
  • 3. Formulas and Speeches: The Usefulness of Parry's Method
  • 4. Wrapping Homer Up: Cohesion, Discourse, and Deviation in the Iliad
  • Part II. Mythic Hymnists, Historical Performers
  • 5. Apollo's Kithara and Poseidon's Crash-Test: Ritual and Contest in the Evolution of Greek Aesthetics
  • 6. The Senses of an Ending: Myth, Ritual, and Poetic Exodia in Performance
  • 7. Synchronic Aspects of Homeric Performance: The Evidence of the Hymn to Apollo
  • 8. Rhapsodizing Orpheus
  • 9. Golden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets
  • Part III. Hesiodic Constructions
  • 10. Hesiod and the Didactic Double
  • 11. Hesiod's Metanastic Poetics
  • 12. Hesiod, Odysseus, and the Instruction of Princes
  • 13. Pulp Epic: The Catalogue and the Shield
  • Part IV. The Backward Look
  • 14. Keens from the Absent Chorus: Troy to Ulster
  • 15. Telemachus and the Last Hero Song
  • 16. Until It Ends: Varieties of Iliadic Anticipation
  • 17. Distant Landmarks: Homer and Hesiod
  • Works Cited
  • Index of Ancient Passages
  • Index of Subjects