Homer''s People - Epic Poetry and Social Formation

Klappentext The first study to examine the role and character of Homer's people in Homeric story-telling. Zusammenfassung The first study to examine the role and character of Homer's people in Homeric story-telling! arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Laoi in early Greek hexameter poetry; 2. Homer's people; 3. Laos epic in performance; Appendix A. Epic formulae; Appendix B. Ritual formulae.

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• Authors: Johannes Haubold, Johannes (University of Durham) Haubold, Haubold Johannes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.05.2008
• EAN: 9780521066419
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06641-9
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval