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Homers Iliad and the Trojan War

Dr Jan Haywood Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney

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  • 240 sidor
  • 2019
In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naose Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homers 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.
  • Författare: Dr Jan Haywood, Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781350129412
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-09-19
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Academic