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Homeric Epic and its Reception, comprising twelve chapter--some previously published but revised for this collection, and others appearing here in print for the first time--offers literary interpretations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. While some chapters closely study the diction, meter, style, and thematic resonance of particular passages and episodes in the Iliad and the Odyssey, others followdiverse pathways into the interpretation of the epics, including mythological allusion, intertextuality, the metrics of the Homeric hexameter, and the fundamental contrast between divinity and humanity. Also included are two chapters which focus on the work of Milman Parry and Ioannis Kakridis, founders of the two most fruitfultwentieth-century scholarly approaches to Homeric scholarship: the study of the Iliad and the Odyssey as traditional oral formulaic poetry (Parry), and the study of the poems' adaptations and transformations of traditional mythology, folktales, and poetic motifs in accordance with their distinctive themes and poetic purposes (Kakridis). The volume draws to a close with three chapters which discuss some of the most compelling poetic and critical receptions of the Iliad and the Odyssey since thelate nineteenth century, and the institutional reception of the epics in colleges and universities in the United States over the past two centuries. Written over a period of 45 years, this collection reflects the authors long-standing interest in, and scholarly and critical approaches to, theliterary interpretation of Homeric poetry.

Epic poetry, Greek --- History and criticism --- Homer. --- Epic poetry, Greek. --- History and criticism. --- Hymn to Aphrodite (Homeric hymn 5) --- Hymn to Aphrodite. --- Iliad (Homer). --- Odyssey (Homer). --- Hymn to Aphrodite (Homeric hymn 5). --- Homer --- E-books --- Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism --- Homer - Iliad --- Homer. - Odyssey

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Greek language --- Iambic trimeter. --- Tragedy. --- Metrics and rhythmics. --- Aeschylus --- Sophocles --- Versification. --- -Iambic trimeter --- Trimeter, Iambic --- -Sophocles --- -Sophocle --- Sófocles --- Sofoklis --- Sofokl --- Sūfūklīs --- Sūtmūklīs --- Sofokŭl --- סופוקלס --- سوفوكليس --- Σοφοκλῆς --- Eskhil --- Eschylus --- Aischylos --- Esquilo --- Eschilo --- Aiskhilos --- Eshil --- Æskílos --- Ajschylos --- Eschil --- Eschyle --- Äschylos --- Eskili --- Aiszkhülosz --- Eschylos --- Iskilos --- Эсхил --- אייסכילוס --- איסכילאס --- איסכילוס --- إيسخولوس --- ايسخيلوس --- Αἰσχύλος --- Iambic trimeter --- Tragedy --- Drama --- Versification --- Metrics and rhythmics --- Sofokles --- Sophocle --- Sofocle --- Sophokles --- Sofocles --- Poetry

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Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Epic poetry, Greek

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"The Iliad is organized according to two complementary, mutually reinforcing artistic principles, one related to its traditional narrative and mythological content, the other to its symmetrical form and to eighth-century aesthetic norms. The narrative moves linearly toward the death of Achilles and the fall of Troy, both of which, as Homer's audiences knew, will follow shortly after the burial of Hektor with which the Iliad concludes, and both of which are anticipated with increasing frequency in the course of the poem. In the mortal world of the Iliad, the movement toward death is a one-way movement, an overriding reality that lends the poem much of its power as a representation of the human condition. Nevertheless, as Aristotle observed, unlike other epic poets who told in chronological order everything that was supposed to have happened in the course of the events they described, Homer organized the Iliad and Odyssey thematically, rather than chronologically, each around a single subject - the wrath of Achilles and its consequences and the man Odysseus and his return home - and gave them an organic unity in which, in the case of the Iliad, the death of Achilles and fall of Troy have no place. Even so, most events in the poem are told in the order in which they occur; there is nothing like the extraordinarily complex narrative form of the Odyssey, with its multiple plots, its movement back and forth in time, its numerous internal narrators and narrative perspectives, and its constant change of locale"--

Homer. - Iliad. - Book 1 --- Trojan War --- Homer. --- Achilles --- Achìe --- Achilas --- Achille --- Achilleus --- Achilli --- Ahil --- Ahile --- Ahilej --- Ahillejs --- Aĥilo --- Aichill --- Akhilles --- Akhilleus --- Akhilleusz --- Akiles --- Akili --- Akille --- Akilles --- Akkilles --- Aquiles --- Aquilles --- Axill --- Axilles --- Ἀχιλλεύς --- آخيل --- アキレウス --- Akireusu --- 아킬레우스 --- 阿喀琉斯 --- Ахіл --- Ахил --- Ахилл --- Akhill --- Ахіллес --- אכילס --- Akhiles

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