Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-667) and indexes.
Contents:
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, Homer 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 and titanomachy / Gianbattista D'alessio -- 12. Oedipodea / Ettore Cingano -- 13. Thebaid / Jose 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 Gartner -- 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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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