Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ONE -- The Epic Cycle and the Tradition of the Trojan War 7 -- Origins of the Cycle Poems -- The Manufacture of the Epic Cycle -- The "Cyclic" Tradition of the Trojan War -- "Cyclic" Trojan War Images -- Later Manifestations -- TWO -- Homer and the Tradition of the Trojan War 47 -- "Cyclic"Myth in the Homeric Poems -- The Date of the Homeric Poems -- Iliadic Images -- Cyclops: Image and Folktale -- Homeric Passages -- THREE -- The Epic Cycle and Homer 132 -- Cropping around the Homeric Poems -- Extent of the Cycle Poems -- Homeric Influence on the Epic Cycle? -- Non-HomericAspects of the Epic Cycle.
Summary:
Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of the Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age.
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