Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War - Dialogues on Tradition

In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoise Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer''s Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural contexts; and from Athenian pot paintings to twelfth-century German scholarship, they engage with a range of different media and genres. Inspired by the dialogues inherent in the process of reception, the book adopts a dialogic structure. In each chapter, paired essays by Haywood and Mac Sweeney offer contrasting authorial voices addressing a single theme, thereby drawing out connections and dissonances between a diverse suite of classical and post-classical Iliadic receptions. The resulting book offers new insights, both into individual instances of Iliadic reception in particular historical contexts, but also into the workings of a complex story tradition. The centrality of the Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition is shown to be a function of conscious engagement not only with Iliadic content, but also with Iliadic status and the iconic idea of the Homeric.>

List of contents

List of Figures
Note from the Authors
Introduction: Dialogue

Chapter 1: Navigating Tradition
1.1:The Iliad's Poets - Haywood
1.2: The Erra's Poems - Mac Sweeney

Chapter 2: Visulaising Society
2.1: Euthymides' Pioneer Politics - Mac Sweeney
2.2: Rossetti's Vulnerable Firebrand - Haywood

Chapter 3: Staging Conflict
3.1: Euripides' New Contests - Haywood
3.2: Shakespeare's Empty Arguments - Mac Sweeney

Chapter 4: Seeking Truth
4.1: Herodotus' Trojan Truths - Haywood
4.2: Schliemann's Physical Proofs - Mac Sweeney

Chapter 5: Claiming Identities
5.1: Godfrey's Hall of Mirrors - Mac Sweeney
5.2: Petersen's Hall of Fame - Haywood

Conclusion: Memorial

References
Index

Product details

• Authors: Dr Jan (Teaching Fellow Haywood, Jan Haywood, Jan (Teaching Fellow Haywood, Dr Naoise (University of Leicester Mac Sweeney, Naoise Mac Sweeney, Naoise (University of Leicester Mac Sweeney, Naoise Mac Sweeney
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781350012684
• ISBN: 978-1-350-01268-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception; Bloomsbury Studies in Classica; Criminal Practice Series; Bloomsbury Studies in Classica; Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, POETRY / Epic, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literature: history and criticism, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient, classical and medieval texts