Early Greek Epic: Language, Interpretation, Performance (Trends In Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 138)

?his book includes 20 articles and chapters on Homer, Hesiod, the Epic Cycle, and the performance of epic. The main topics are Homer's diction, meter, word-localization, textual issues, motif-transference, and the sources of Homeric epic; poetics and the role of sound in Hesiodic poetry; the gods in Cyclic epic, the Theban epics, the Cypria, and the Telegony; singers and rhapsodes, the performance of epic poetry in the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Imperial Periods.

• | Author: Christos Tsagalis
• | Publisher: De Gruyter
• | Publication Date: Nov 21, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 666 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3110993724
• | ISBN-13: 9783110993721