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Some classicists study Homeric epic together with other examples of what is standardly called oral/traditional poetry. In a recent book, for example, John Foley pairs Homer with a Tibetan Paper-Singer, a North American Slam Poet and a South-African Praise-Poet, in an attempt to work out ‘how to read an oral poem’.4 Other scholars, by
Among his present research interests are Greek tragedy, Hellenistic poetry, Greek and Latin metrics, and ancient literary criticism and scholarship. christos tsagalis is Professor of Greek at the Aristotle Univer-sity of Thessaloniki. His research interests encompass Homer, Hes-iod, historiography, and the Greek epigram. His books include From
Topic 1. Early Epic Poetry 3 Topic 2. Homer (c. Twelfth–eighth centuries BC) 4 Topic 3. The Epic Cycle 8 Topic 4. The Homeric Hymns (Seventh century BC) 10 Topic 5. Hesiod (Seventh century BC, Euboea) 11 P ERIOD T WO: T HE A RCHAIC A GE (750–500 BC) Lyric and Ode Topic 6. The Lyric Imagination and its Historical Setting 15 Topic 7.
EARLY GREEK EPIC POETRYThis book sets out to disentangle the complex chronology of early Greek epic poetry, which includes Homer, Hesiod. hymns and cata-logues. The preserved corpus of these texts is characterized by a rather uniform language and many recurring themes, thus making the estab-lishment of chronological prio.
Greek tragedy, primarily those tragedies that were produced in the fifth century B.C. This influence is most clearly discernible in the high proportion of tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides that tell stories relating to the Trojan War and do so in ways that reveal the tragedians’ engagement with non-Homeric epic.
The rhetorisation of epic poetry, under the influence of declamation schools and a more pervasive formal education of the target audience, is perhaps best exemplified by four developments: 1) the stricter application of already existing formal regulations and microstructures, e.g. in the greater precision of parallelisms between the objects of ...
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Study Guide Ancient Greek Literature: Epic Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Historiography & Rhetoric ISBN 978-960-538-968-0 A. Antonopoulos Study Guide The outputs derived under the Subproject 2 titled «Development of printed educational material for the new courses of study» of the funding Program: ”Hellenic Open University”, MIS 296121, have been co-financed by the European Union (European ...
