Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War

Dialogues on Tradition

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Jan Haywood, Naoise Mac Sweeney

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In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer’s Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural contexts; and from Athenian pot paintings to twelfth-century German scholarship, they engage with a range of different media and genres.Inspired by the dialogues inherent in the process of reception, the book adopts a dialogic structure. In each chapter, paired essays by Haywood and Mac Sweeney offer contrasting authorial voices addressing a single theme, thereby drawing out connections and dissonances between a diverse suite of classical and post-classical Iliadic receptions.The resulting book offers new insights, both into individual instances of Iliadic reception in particular historical contexts, but also into the workings of a complex story tradition. The centrality of the Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition is shown to be a function of conscious engagement not only with Iliadic content, but also with Iliadic status and the iconic idea of the Homeric.

Produktinformation

  • Utgivningsdatum2019-09-19
  • Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
  • Vikt340 g
  • FormatHäftad
  • SpråkEngelska
  • SerieBloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
  • Antal sidor240
  • FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN9781350129412

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