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Informationen zum Autor John Miles Foley is the Curators' and Byler Professor of Classical Studies and English at the University of Missouri. He is the founder and Director of the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition. He is the author of The Theory of Oral Composition (1988), The Singer of Tales in Performance (1995), Homer's Traditional Art (1999), and How to Read an Oral Poem (2002). Klappentext Epic was the master-genre of the ancient world: it was central to group identity, education, literature, and culture. Yet modern understanding of ancient epic is not static, and scholarship over the last few decades has transformed the ways that we conceive of and understand the genre, introducing topics such as the role of women, the history of reception, and comparison with living analogues from oral tradition. A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman epic. It offers a multidisciplinary discussion of both long-standing ideas and newer perspectives. A key feature of the volume, designed to make the book as useful as possible, is the index of poems, poets, technical terms, important figures, and other relevant literary and artistic works. The Companion will be required reading for all students of ancient literature. Zusammenfassung A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive! up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern! Greek! and Roman epic. It offers a multidisciplinary discussion of both long-standing ideas and newer perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xvi Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works xvii Abbreviations of Modern Reference Works xxiii Map: The ancient epic territories xxv Introduction 1 John Miles Foley Part I Issues and Perspectives 7 1 Epic as Genre 9 Richard P. Martin 2 The Indo-European Context 20 Joshua T. Katz 3 Epic and Myth 31 Lowell Edmunds 4 Performance 45 Minna Skafte Jensen 5 Epic and History 55 Kurt A. Raaflaub 6 The Epic Hero 71 Gregory Nagy 7 The Gods in Epic, or the Divine Economy 90 Bruce Louden 8 Women in Ancient Epic 105 Helene P. Foley 9 Archaeological Contexts 119 Susan Sherratt 10 The Physical Media: Tablet, Scroll, Codex 142 Michael W. Haslam 11 Ancient Reception 164 Robert Lamberton 12 Translating Ancient Epic 174 Richard Hamilton Armstrong 13 Analogues: Modern Oral Epics 196 John Miles Foley Part II Near Eastern Epic 213 14 Comparative Observations on the Near Eastern Epic Traditions 215 Jack M. Sasson 15 Mesopotamian Epic 233 Scott B. Noegel 16 Epic in Ugaritic Literature 246 N. Wyatt 17 Hittite and Hurrian Epic 255 Gary Beckman 18 Persian/Iranian Epic 264 Olga M. Davidson 19 The Challenge of Israelite Epic 277 Susan Niditch Part III Ancient Greek Epic 289 20 Near Eastern Connections 291 Walter Burkert 21 Homer's Iliad 302 Mark W. Edwards 22 Homer's Odyssey 315 Laura M. Slatkin 23 Hesiod 330 Stephanie Nelson 24 The Epic Cycle and Fragments 344 Jonathan S. Burgess 25 Apollonius of Rhodes 353 D. P. Nelis 26 Quintus of Smyrna 364 Alan James 27 Nonnus 374 Robert Shorrock 28 Epic and Other Genres in the Ancient Greek World 386 R. Scott Garner 29 Homer's Post-classical Legacy 397
