HomerAEs Iliad and the Trojan War: Dialogues on Tradition (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception) - 9781350012684

In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Nao?se Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural contexts; and from Athenian pot paintings to twelfth-century German scholarship, they engage with a range of different media and genres. Inspired by the dialogues inherent in the process of reception, the book adopts a dialogic structure. In each chapter, paired essays by Haywood and Mac Sweeney offer contrasting authorial voices addressing a single theme, thereby drawing out connections and dissonances between a diverse suite of classical and post-classical Iliadic receptions. The resulting book offers new insights, both into individual instances of Iliadic reception in particular historical contexts, but also into the workings of a complex story tradition. The centrality of the Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition is shown to be a function of conscious engagement not only with Iliadic content, but also with Iliadic status and the iconic idea of the Homeric.

• | Author: Naoise Mac Sweeney, Jan Haywood
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Mar 22, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1350012688
• | ISBN-13: 9781350012684