Homer's Allusive Art argues for a new understanding of Homeric allusion and its place in literary history through a series of interlocking case studies, exploring whether there can have been historical continuity in a poetics of allusion stretching from the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh through to the Aeneid and Metamorphoses.
Homer's Allusive Art argues for a new understanding of Homeric allusion and its place in literary history through a series of interlocking case studies, exploring whether there can have been historical continuity in a poetics of allusion stretching from the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh through to the Aeneid and Metamorphoses.
Bruno Currie is Associate Professor in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford and Monro Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Oriel College. His chief research interests are ancient Greek poetry (especially epic and lyric), ancient Greek religion, and the interaction between the two, and he is the author of several articles on these subjects. His other publications include Epic Interactions: Perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the Epic Tradition Presented to Jasper Griffin by Former Pupils (Oxford, 2006), as co-editor, and the authored monograph Pindar and the Cult of Heroes (Oxford, 2005).
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* Frontmatter * List of tables * List of conventions and abbreviations * How to use this book * 1: Homer and Allusive Art * 2: The Homeric Epics and their Forerunners * 3: The Archaic Hymns to Demeter * 4: Pregnant Tears and Poetic Memory * 5: Allusion in Greek and Near Eastern Mythological Poetry * I. A Greek transference: Aphrodite to Hera * II. A Sumerian-Akkadian-Greek transference: Inanna, Ishtar, Aphrodite * III. Mythological catalogues, seductions, plaints in heaven: typology or allusiona * IV. The question of awareness of Near Eastern sources * V. Consequences for Greek and Near Eastern poetry * 6: Epilogue: Traditional Art and Allusive Art * Appendices * A: Proclus' Summaries of the Cyclical Epics * B: Translation of the Berlin Papyrus (Commentary on the Orphic Hymn to Demeter) * C: Allusive Doublets and Inconcinnities * D: Pindar, the Aethiopis, and Homer * E: Prospective Lamentation * F: Typologically Generated Repetition versus Specific Reprise * Endmatter * References * Index of passages * General index
* Frontmatter * List of tables * List of conventions and abbreviations * How to use this book * 1: Homer and Allusive Art * 2: The Homeric Epics and their Forerunners * 3: The Archaic Hymns to Demeter * 4: Pregnant Tears and Poetic Memory * 5: Allusion in Greek and Near Eastern Mythological Poetry * I. A Greek transference: Aphrodite to Hera * II. A Sumerian-Akkadian-Greek transference: Inanna, Ishtar, Aphrodite * III. Mythological catalogues, seductions, plaints in heaven: typology or allusiona * IV. The question of awareness of Near Eastern sources * V. Consequences for Greek and Near Eastern poetry * 6: Epilogue: Traditional Art and Allusive Art * Appendices * A: Proclus' Summaries of the Cyclical Epics * B: Translation of the Berlin Papyrus (Commentary on the Orphic Hymn to Demeter) * C: Allusive Doublets and Inconcinnities * D: Pindar, the Aethiopis, and Homer * E: Prospective Lamentation * F: Typologically Generated Repetition versus Specific Reprise * Endmatter * References * Index of passages * General index
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