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The art and rhetoric of the Homeric catalogue.
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ISBN: 9780195375688 0195375688 0199871590 0199704880 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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Device and composition in the Greek epic cycle
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ISBN: 9780190614843 9780190614850 0190614846 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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From a corpus of Greek epics known in antiquity as the "Epic Cycle," six poems dealt with the same Trojan War mythology as the Homeric poems. Though they are now lost, these poems were much read and much discussed in ancient times, not only for their content but for their mysterious relationship with the more famous works attributed to Homer. In Device and Composition in the Greek Epic Cycle, Benjamin Sammons shows that these lost poems belonged, compositionally, to essentially the same tradition as the Homeric poems. He demonstrates that various compositional devices well-known from the Homeric epics were also fundamental to the narrative construction of these later works. Yet while the "cyclic" poets constructed their works using the same traditional devices as Homer, they used these to different ends and with different results. Sammons argues that the essential difference between cyclic and Homeric poetry lies not in the fundamental building blocks from which they are constructed, but in the scale of these components relative to the overall construction of poems. This sheds important light on the early history of epic as a genre, since it is likely that these devices originally developed to provide large-scale structure to shorter poems and have been put to quite different use in the composition of the monumental Homeric epics. Along the way Sammons sheds new light on the overall form of lost cyclic epics and on the meaning and context of the few surviving verse fragments.


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Poetry in Fragments
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ISBN: 3110536803 3110537583 9783110537581 9783110536805 9783110537598 3110537591 9783110536218 3110536218 9783110658576 Year: 2017 Volume: 50 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Next to the Theogony and the Works and Days stands an entire corpus of fragmentary works attributed to the Boeotian poet Hesiod that has during the last thirty years attracted growing scholarly interest. Whereas other studies have concentrated either on the interpretation of the best preserved work of this corpus, the Catalogue of Women, or have offered detailed commentaries, this volume aims at bringing together studies focusing on generic and contextual factors pertaining to the various works of the Hesiodic corpus, the Catalogue of Women included, and the corpus' afterlife in Rome and Byzantium.


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Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond

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This volume juxtaposes lists and catalogues in poetic texts from the ancient world with the abundance of non-, sub-, or para-literary practices of listing and cataloguing in contexts such as lexicography, mythography, genealogy or magic. In establishing both unifying concerns and divergences in approaches to this varied corpus, it sheds light on their functions at the intersection of pragmatics, materiality, performativity and aesthetics.

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