Homeric Doloneia - Evolution and Shaping of Iliad 10

The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity being doubted since antiquity. But by applying sophisticated interpretive tools, this book maintains that Iliad 10 was not composed by a single poet, that it is thematically consonant with the rest of the Iliad, and that it has evolved from an earlier Iliadic version.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Theoretical Aspects


• 2: A First Thematic Approach: Intratextual References


• 3: A Second Thematic Approach: The Horses of Rhesus


• 4: The Alleged Un-Iliadic Features of Iliad 10: Speeches, Clothing and Arming, Zielinski's Law


• 5: Putative Clues for the Hector-Version of Iliad 10


• 6: Reconstructing the Hector-Version of Iliad 10


• 7: The Two Versions of the Rhesus Myth: Reconstruction of Possible Sources


• 8: Comparative Material: The Mah¿bh¿rata and the Aeneid


• 9: The Rhesus Story within the Cyclic and the Iliadic Tradition


• Conclusions

About the author

Christos C. Tsagalis is Professor of Greek at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is co-editor of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic, of the series of monographs Key Perspectives on Classical Research, and assistant editor of Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes. He has received the Award in Classics of the Academy of Athens and the Aristeion in Humanities of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a Member of the Board of the Center of Greek Language and a Member of the Academia Europaea.

Summary

The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity being doubted since antiquity. But by applying sophisticated interpretive tools, this book maintains that Iliad 10 was not composed by a single poet, that it is thematically consonant with the rest of the Iliad, and that it has evolved from an earlier Iliadic version.

Product details

• Authors: Christos C. Tsagalis, Christos C. (Professor of Ancient Greek Tsagalis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2024
• EAN: 9780192870988
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287098-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets