Homer's people: epic poetry and social formation

This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting...

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Beteilige Person: Haubold, Johannes (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge classical studies
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107297975
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107297975
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107297975
Zusammenfassung:This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people. The investigation draws on a wide range of approaches from formulaic analysis to the study of early performance contexts. From a close reading of the Homeric epics, Homer's people emerge as a community without effective social structures. When this is viewed from the perspective of Homeric performances in the polis, a contrast between Homer's laoi and the founding people of ritual emerges. While the former typically perish, the survival of the latter is secured by the establishment of successful institutions
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Umfang:1 online resource (xv, 240 pages)
ISBN:9781107297975
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781107297975