A New Companion To Homer

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This volume is the first English-language survey of Homeric studies to appear for more than a generation, and the first such work to attempt to cover all fields comprehensively. Thirty leading scholars from Europe and America provide short, authoritative overviews of the state of knowledge and current controversies in the many specialist divisions in Homeric studies. The chapters pay equal attention to literary, mythological, linguistic, historical, and archaeological topics, ranging from such long-established problems as the "Homeric Question" to newer issues like the relevance of narratology and computer-assisted quantification. The collection, the third publication in Brill's handbook series, The Classical Tradition, will be valuable at every level of study - from the general student of literature to the Homeric specialist seeking a general understanding of the latest developments across the whole range of Homeric scholarship.

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• Series: Mnemosyne Supplementum 163

• Year: 1,997

• City: Leiden, New York

• Pages: xviii, 755

• Language: English

• Topic: 314

• Identifier: 0585367639,9780585367637

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• Toc: A NEW COMPANION TO HOMER/5 CONTENTS/9 CONTRIBUTORS/13 EDITORS' INTRODUCTION/15 PART ONE - TRANSMISSION AND HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION/21 HOMER AND WRITING/23 HOMER IN ANTIQUITY/53 HOMERIC PAPYRI AND TRANSMISSION OF THE TEXT/75 HOMERIC SCHOLIA/121 THE HOMERIC QUESTION/143 ORAL TRADITION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS/166 NEOANALYSIS/194 PART TWO - HOMER'S LANGUAGE/211 HOMER'S DIALECT/213 HOMER'S METER/238 THE FORMULA/258 HOMERIC STYLE AND ORAL POETICS/281 THE STUDY OF HOMERIC DISCOURSE/304 HOMER AND NARRATOLOGY/325 QUANTIFYING EPIC/346 PART THREE - HOMER AS LITERATURE/363 THE ILIAD: STRUCTURE AND INTERPRETATION/365 THE STRUCTURES OF THE ODYSSEY/380 MODERN THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HOMER/400 EPIC AS GENRE/416 MYTH IN HOMER/435 HOMER AND THE FOLKTALE/462 HOMER AND HESIOD/483 THE HOMERIC HYMNS/509 PART FOUR - HOMER'S WORLDS/529 HOMER AND THE BRONZE AGE/531 HOMER AND THE IRON AGE/555 HOMER AND GREEK ART/580 HOMER AND THE NEAR EAST/619 HOMERIC SOCIETY/644,Black THE HOMERIC ECONOMY/669 HOMERIC WARFARE/688 HOMERIC ETHICS/714 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX/767