The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle / Jonathan S. Burgess.

Author/creator Burgess, Jonathan S., 1960-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionxvi, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Homer--Knowledge and learning.
Homer--Influence.
Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
Trojan War--Literature and the war.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History. --To 1500.
Literature and history--Greece.
Lost literature--Greece.
Cycles (Literature)
Troy (Extinct city)--In literature.

Contents Machine generated contents note: ONE -- The Epic Cycle and the Tradition of the Trojan War 7 -- Origins of the Cycle Poems -- The Manufacture of the Epic Cycle -- The "Cyclic" Tradition of the Trojan War -- "Cyclic" Trojan War Images -- Later Manifestations -- TWO -- Homer and the Tradition of the Trojan War 47 -- "Cyclic"Myth in the Homeric Poems -- The Date of the Homeric Poems -- Iliadic Images -- Cyclops: Image and Folktale -- Homeric Passages -- THREE -- The Epic Cycle and Homer 132 -- Cropping around the Homeric Poems -- Extent of the Cycle Poems -- Homeric Influence on the Epic Cycle? -- Non-HomericAspects of the Epic Cycle.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 00011637
ISBN0801866529 (hardcover : acid-free paper)