Relative chronology in early Greek epic poetry / edited by Øivind Andersen, Dag T.T. Haug.

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"This book sets out to disentangle the complex chronology of early Greek epic poetry, which includes Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. The preserved corpus of these texts is characterised by a rather uniform language and many recurring themes, thus making the establishment of chronological priori...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Andersen, Øivind Haug, Dag
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 [©2012]
Subjects:	Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism. Epic poetry, Greek > Chronology. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Genre:	Chronology.
Physical Description:	xiii, 277 pages
Format:	Book

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Relative chronology and the literary history of the early Greek epos Richard Janko; 2. Relative chronology and an 'Aeolic phase' of epic BRANDTLY JONES; 3. The other view: focus on linguistic innovations in the Homeric epics Rudolf Wachter; 4. Late features in the speeches of the Iliad Margalit Finkelberg; 5. Tmesis in the epic tradition Dag T. T. Haug; 6. The Doloneia revisited Georg Danek; 7. Odyssean stratigraphy Stephanie West; 8. Older heroes and earlier poems: the case of Heracles in the Odyssey Øivind Andersen; 9. The Catalogue of Women within the Greek epic tradition: allusion, intertextuality and traditional referentiality Ian C. Rutherford; 10. Intertextuality without text in early Greek epic Jonathan S. Burgess; 11. Perspectives on neoanalysis from the archaic hymns to Demeter Bruno Currie; 12. The relative chronology of the Homeric Catalogue of Ships and of the lists of heroes and cities within the Catalogue Wolfgang Kullman; 13. Towards a chronology of early Greek epic Martin West.