The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion

EAN: 9781107012592
Published 06/08/2015
Language: English

The poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myths and narratives which took their present form in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The remains of these texts allow us to investigate diachronic aspects of epic diction as well as the extent of variation within it on the part of individual authors - two of the most important questions in modern research on archaic epic. They also help to illuminate the early history of Greek mythology. Access to the poems, however, has been thwarted by their current fragmentary state. This volume provides the scholarly community and graduate students with a thorough critical foundation for reading and interpreting them.

Introduction
Kyklos, Epic Cycle, and Cyclic poetry Marco Fantuzzi and Christos Tsagalis
Part I. Approaches to the Epic Cycle
1. Coming adrift
the limits of reconstruction of the Cyclic poems Jonathan Burgess
2. Oral traditions, written texts, and questions of authorship Gregory Nagy
3. The Epic Cycle and oral tradition John M. Foley and Justin Arft
4. The formation of the Epic Cycle Martin L. West
5. Motif- and source-research
neoanalysis, Homeric and cyclic epic Wolfgang Kullmann
6. Meta-cyclic epic and Homeric poetry Margalit Finkelberg
7. Language and meter of the Epic Cycle Alberto Bernabé
8. Narrative techniques in the Epic Cycle Antonios Rengakos
9. Wit and irony in the Epic Cycle David Konstan
10. The Trojan war in early Greek art Thomas H. Carpenter
Part II. Epics
11. Theogony Gianbattista D'alessio
12. Oedipodea Ettore Cingano
13. Thebaid José B. Torres-Guerra
14. Epigonoi Ettore Cingano
15. Alcmeonis Andrea Debiasi
16. Cypria Bruno Currie
17. Aethiopis Antonios Rengakos
18. Ilias parva Adrian Kelly
19. Iliou persis Patrick Finglass
20. Nostoi Georg Danek
21. Telegony Christos Tsagalis
Part III. Fortune of the Epic Cycle
22. The aesthetics of sequentiality and its discontents Marco Fantuzzi
23. The Epic Cycle, Stesichorus, and Ibycus Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi
24. Pindar's cycle Ian Rutherford
25. Tragedy and the Epic Cycle Alan Sommerstein
26. The Hellenistic reception of the Epic Cycle Evina Sistakou
27. Running rings round Troy
recycling the 'epic circle' in Hellenistic and Roman art Michael Squire
28. Virgil and the Epic Cycle Ursula Gärtner
29. Ovid and the Epic Cycle Gianpiero Rosati
30. Statius' Achilleid and the Cypria Charles McNelis
31. The Epic Cycle and the ancient novel David F. Elmer
32. The Epic Cycle and Imperial Greek epic Silvio Bär and Manuel Baumbach.