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18 de may. de 2024 · Thus the criteria of epic comprehensiveness vary from age to age—from the archaic notion of the epic Cycle to the classical notion of Homer the tragedian. What remains an invariable, however, is the basic institutional context in which the very idea of epic comprehensiveness took shape: that context is the festival.
16 de may. de 2024 · This inquiry centers on the surviving texts of “Life of Homer” narrative traditions, to which I refer simply as Lives of Homer. [1] These Lives, I argue, can be read as sources of historical information about the reception of Homeric poetry.
30 de may. de 2024 · Homer is traditionally regarded as a source for subsequent rhetorical theorizing rather than as the practitioner of a formal art of rhetoric (Kennedy, Art of Persuasion, 35-9); Rachel Ahern Knudsen has, however, recently argued for the presence of something more systematic than mere ‘natural eloquence’ in the speeches of The ...
Hace 5 días · The exceptional popularity as heroic models that Achilles and Odysseus have enjoyed since antiquity is due above all to the fact that Homer chose them as the protagonists of his poems, and, therefore, as paradigms of heroic excellence (ἀρετή), guiding his peculiar perspective of the supreme human adventure by the passionate intensity of the anger of one and by the incomparable constancy ...
Hace 3 días · Starting in around 1928, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, after their studies of folk bards in the Balkans, developed the "Oral-Formulaic Theory" that the Homeric poems were originally composed through improvised oral performances, which relied on traditional epithets and poetic formulas.
13 de may. de 2024 · Homer’s works have been an essential feature of Western education from ancient to modern times. Deneen fastens on the character of Odysseus, whom he takes to be central to Western philosophical reflection on politics.
