Limit this search to....

Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War: Dialogues on Tradition
Contributor(s): Mac Sweeney, Naoise (Author), Sweeney, Naoise Mac (Author)
ISBN: 1350012688     ISBN-13: 9781350012684
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $158.40  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2018
Qty:
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
- Poetry | Epic
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Dewey: 883.01
LCCN: 2017049478
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.12 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Greece
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Haywood, Jan: - Jan Haywood is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. He has published on various aspects of the history and literature of the ancient Greek world, and is the author of Intertext and Allusion in Herodotus' Histories: Authority, Proof, Polemic (forthcoming).