Homeric Contexts - Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry

This volume aims at offering a critical reassessment of the progress made in Homeric research in recent years, focussing on its two main trends, Neonalysis and Oral Theory. Interpreting Homer in the 21st century asks for a holistic approach that allows us to reconsider some of our methodological tools and preconceptions concerning what we call Homeric poetry. The neoanalytical and oral 'booms', which have to a large extent influenced the way we see Homer today, may be re-evaluated if we are willing to endorse a more flexible approach to certain scholarly taboos pertaining to these two schools of interpretation. Song-traditions, formula, performance, multiformity on the one hand, and Motivforschung, Epic Cycle on the other, may not be so incompatible as we often tend to think.

About the author

Antonios Rengakos ist Professor für Ältere Griechische Philosophie an der Aristoteles Universität Thessaloniki, Griechenland.

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"Per quanto sommaria e selettiva, questa esposizione può dare comunque un'idea della varietà e complessità degli argomenti trattati. [...] a tutti va comunque riconosciuto un ottimo livello qualitativo, il che non sempre accade in pubblicazioni di questa natura."
Francesco Bertolini in: Athenaeum 105.2 (2017), 836-837

Product details

• Assisted by: Christos C Tsagalis (Editor), Franco Montanari (Editor), Antonio Rengakos (Editor), Antonios Rengakos (Editor), Christos C. Tsagalis (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2012
• EAN: 9783110271959
• ISBN: 978-3-11-027195-9
• No. of pages: 698
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 42 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 1140 g
• Illustrations: 16 b/w ill.
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes; Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies