{"product_id":"the-greek-epic-cycle-and-its-ancient-reception-a-companion-paperback-9781108730266","title":"The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception; A Companion (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108730266","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Companion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA thorough introduction to these important, but fragmentary, early Greek narrative poems so crucial for understanding Homer and Greek mythology.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarco Fantuzzi (Edited by), Christos Tsagalis (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108730266, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 January 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e692 pages, 29 b\/w illus.  1 table\u003cbr\u003e24.5 x 18.9 x 3.4 cm, 1.3 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The book is beautifully produced in CUP's attractive wide-margin format. The footnotes contain helpfully abundant cross-referencing of chapters … This is an excellent and important Companion that brings together, on an unprecedented scale for this material, clear and detailed summaries of the state of play in a notably complex field of scholarship.' Lyndsay Coo, Bryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myths and narratives which took their present form in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The remains of these texts allow us to investigate diachronic aspects of epic diction as well as the extent of variation within it on the part of individual authors - two of the most important questions in modern research on archaic epic. They also help to illuminate the early history of Greek mythology. Access to the poems, however, has been thwarted by their current fragmentary state. This volume provides the scholarly community and graduate students with a thorough critical foundation for reading and interpreting them.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Kyklos, Epic Cycle, and Cyclic poetry Marco Fantuzzi and Christos Tsagalis\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Approaches to the Epic Cycle: 1. Coming adrift: the limits of reconstruction of the Cyclic poems Jonathan Burgess\u003cbr\u003e 2. Oral traditions, written texts, and questions of authorship Gregory Nagy\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Epic Cycle and oral tradition John M. Foley and Justin Arft\u003cbr\u003e 4. The formation of the Epic Cycle Martin L. West\u003cbr\u003e 5. Motif- and source-research: neoanalysis, Homeric and cyclic epic Wolfgang Kullmann\u003cbr\u003e 6. Meta-cyclic epic and Homeric poetry Margalit Finkelberg\u003cbr\u003e 7. Language and meter of the Epic Cycle Alberto Bernabé\u003cbr\u003e 8. Narrative techniques in the Epic Cycle Antonios Rengakos\u003cbr\u003e 9. Wit and irony in the Epic Cycle David Konstan\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Trojan war in early Greek art Thomas H. Carpenter\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Epics: 11. Theogony Gianbattista D'alessio\u003cbr\u003e 12. Oedipodea Ettore Cingano\u003cbr\u003e 13. Thebaid José B. Torres-Guerra\u003cbr\u003e 14. Epigonoi Ettore Cingano\u003cbr\u003e 15. Alcmeonis Andrea Debiasi\u003cbr\u003e 16. Cypria Bruno Currie\u003cbr\u003e 17. Aethiopis Antonios Rengakos\u003cbr\u003e 18. Ilias parva Adrian Kelly\u003cbr\u003e 19. Iliou persis Patrick Finglass\u003cbr\u003e 20. Nostoi Georg Danek\u003cbr\u003e 21. Telegony Christos Tsagalis\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Fortune of the Epic Cycle: 22. The aesthetics of sequentiality and its discontents Marco Fantuzzi\u003cbr\u003e 23. The Epic Cycle, Stesichorus, and Ibycus Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi\u003cbr\u003e 24. Pindar's cycle Ian Rutherford\u003cbr\u003e 25. Tragedy and the Epic Cycle Alan Sommerstein\u003cbr\u003e 26. The Hellenistic reception of the Epic Cycle Evina Sistakou\u003cbr\u003e 27. Running rings round Troy: recycling the 'epic circle' in Hellenistic and Roman art Michael Squire\u003cbr\u003e 28. Virgil and the Epic Cycle Ursula Gärtner\u003cbr\u003e 29. Ovid and the Epic Cycle Gianpiero Rosati\u003cbr\u003e 30. Statius' Achilleid and the Cypria Charles McNelis\u003cbr\u003e 31. The Epic Cycle and the ancient novel David F. Elmer\u003cbr\u003e 32. The Epic Cycle and Imperial Greek epic Silvio Bär and Manuel Baumbach.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20classical,%20early%20\u0026amp;%20medieval%20%5BDSBB%5D%22\"\u003eDSBB\u003c\/a\u003e], Poetry [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Poetry\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Poetry%20%5BDC%5D%22\"\u003eDC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46001964679448,"sku":"9781108730266","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108730266i.jpg?v=1696718198","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-greek-epic-cycle-and-its-ancient-reception-a-companion-paperback-9781108730266","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}