: Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos, Christos C. Tsagalis
: Homeric Contexts Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110272017
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< >This volume addresses questions concerning Neoanalysis and Oral theory, the two most fruitful schools of thought in Homeric criticism. It explores the development of Greek myth with respect to the Trojan war; the signs of heroic cult in Homeric poetry; the function of memory; the relation between the catalogue of ships and the Iliadic narrative; the tragedy of Achilles; the travels of Odysseus; theTelemachyand theNostoi, the false tales and Crete; the imagery of Odyssean similes; language and formulas; theEpic Cycle; Hesiod and Homer; the epic ofAlpamysh; theIliad and theEpic of Gilgamesh.



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Franco Montanari, University of Genova, Italy;Antonios Rengakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;Christos Tsagalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Introduction The Homeric Question Today12
Part I: Theoretical Issues22
Neoanalysis between Orality and Literacy: Some Remarks Concerning the Development of Greek Myths Including the Legend of the Capture of Troy24
Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry38
Oral Formulaic Theory and the Individual Poet84
Memory and Memories: Personal, Social, and Cultural Memory in the Poems of Homer94
...... a. .e.. ....: A Programmatic Function of the Iliadic Catalogue of Ships112
Part II: Iliad124
The Despised Migrant (Il. 9.648 = 16.59)126
Orality, Fluid Textualization and Interweaving Themes. Some Remarks on the Doloneia: Magical Horses from Night to Light and Death to Life144
Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century186
The Fate of Achilles in the Iliad196
Grieving Achilles208
The Mourning of Thetis: ‘Allusion’ and the Future in the Iliad232
Part III: Odyssey278
Belatedness in the Travels of Odysseus280
The Telemachy and the Cyclic Nostoi302
Deauthorizing the Epic Cycle: Odysseus’ False Tale to Eumaeus (Od. 14.199–359)320
Animal Similes in Odyssey 22358
.. ...µe.a t... .e...... p...µas..: Questions about Evolution and Fluidity of the Odyssey380
Part IV: Language and Formulas422
Kypris, Kythereia and the Fifth Book of the Iliad424
Iterative and Syntactical Units: A Religious Gesture in the Iliad438
Epithets with Echoes: A Study on Formula-Narrative Interaction456
Part V: Homer and Beyond480
Homer .....st.. in Chalcis482
Hesiod and the Epic Cycle512
The Writing Down of the Oral Thebaid that Homer Knew: In the Footsteps of Wolfgang Kullmann528
Some Reflections on Alpamysh542
The Iliad, Gilgamesh, and Neoanalysis554
Bibliography592
List of Contributors636
Indices642
General Index642
Index of Ancient Names652
Index of Modern Names663
Index Locorum677