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.>

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: 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
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781350012684
• ISBN: 978-1-350-01268-4
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception; Bloomsbury Studies in Classica; Criminal Practice Series; Bloomsbury Studies in Classica; Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; 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