New Zealand author. Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-146), appendix, and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Part I. The Poems ; 1. The Hesiodic works and days ; 2. The Hesiodic theogony ; 3. The Hesiodic catalogue of women ; 4. The Hesiodic shield ; 5. The Homeric hymns ; 6. The epic cycle ; 7. Oracle collectors (chresmologoi) ; 8. Epigraphy ; Part II. Genre ; 9. Large-scale: overarching topics and themes ; 10. Medium-scale: sub-themes and major structural features ; 11. Small-scale: tropes and stylistic features ; Part III. Tradition and Legend ; 12. Unrecorded traditions ; 13. Hexameter and the formula ; 14. Prehistory of the epic tradition ; Part IV. Performance ; 15. Musical instruments ; 16. Rhythm ; 17. Pitch and melody ; 18. Performance context ; Part V. Fragments ; 19. Introduction to fragments ; 20. Examples of fragments ; 21. How to approach a fragmentary text ; 22. Vestigial fragments ; Part VI. Relationship between Poems ; 23. Modern scholarship: neoanalysis and other 'systemic' interpretations ; 24. Ancient transmission: cropping and splicing ; Appendix.
Summary:
This is the first book to give an introduction to all genres of early hexameter poetry. It introduces readers to extant and fragmentary works, and is an ideal source for up-to-date research on literary criticism and literary form, mythology and genre, language and metre, and performance and music.
Series:
Greece & Rome: New surveys in the classics ; no. 43
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