The Art And Rhetoric Of The Homeric Catalogue

Author : Benjamin Sammons
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195375688
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book The Art and Rhetoric of the Homeric Catalogue written by Benjamin Sammons and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at a familiar element of the Homeric epics - the poetic catalogue. It shows that in a variety of contexts, Homer uses catalogue poetry not only to develop his themes, but to comment on the ideals and limitations of the epic genre itself.

Author : Benjamin Sammons
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ISBN 13 : 9780199704880
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Art and Rhetoric of the Homeric Catalogue written by Benjamin Sammons and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at a familiar element of the Homeric epics - the poetic catalogue. It shows that in a variety of contexts, Homer uses catalogue poetry not only to develop his themes, but to comment on the ideals and limitations of the epic genre itself.

Author : Charlayn von Solms
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350039594
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book A Homeric Catalogue of Shapes written by Charlayn von Solms and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the popular imagination, Homer as author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, epitomises poetic genius. So, when scholars proposed that the Homeric epics were not the unique creation of an individual author, but instead reflected a traditional compositional system developed by generations of singer-poets, swathes of assumptions about the poems and their 'author' were swept aside and called into question. Much had to be re-evaluated through a new lens. The creative process described by scholars for the Homeric epics shares many key attributes with the modern visual art-forms of collage and its less familiar variant: sculptural assemblage. A Homeric Catalogue of Shapes describes a series of twelve sculptures that together function as an abstract portrait of Homer: not a depiction of him as an individual, but as a compositional system. The technique by which the artworks were produced reflects the poetic method that scholars termed oral-formulaic. In both of these creative processes the artwork is constructed from pre-existing elements: such as phrases, characters, and plot-lines in the epics; and objects, fragmented items, and borrowed forms in the sculptures. The artist/author presents a largely unknown characterisation of Homeric poetics in a manner that emphasizes the extent and complexity of this Homer's artistry.

Author : Charlayn von Solms
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781350194571
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Homeric Catalogue of Shapes written by Charlayn von Solms and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the popular imagination, Homer as author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, epitomises poetic genius. So, when scholars proposed that the Homeric epics were not the unique creation of an individual author, but instead reflected a traditional compositional system developed by generations of singer-poets, swathes of assumptions about the poems and their 'author' were swept aside and called into question. Much had to be re-evaluated through a new lens. The creative process described by scholars for the Homeric epics shares many key attributes with the modern visual art-forms of collage and its less familiar variant: sculptural assemblage. A Homeric Catalogue of Shapes describes a series of twelve sculptures that together function as an abstract portrait of Homer: not a depiction of him as an individual, but as a compositional system. The technique by which the artworks were produced reflects the poetic method that scholars termed oral-formulaic. In both of these creative processes the artwork is constructed from pre-existing elements: such as phrases, characters, and plot-lines in the epics; and objects, fragmented items, and borrowed forms in the sculptures. The artist/author presents a largely unknown characterisation of Homeric poetics in a manner that emphasizes the extent and complexity of this Homer's artistry.

Author : Jacqueline E. Jay
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004323074
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales written by Jacqueline E. Jay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of a parallel oral tradition, focusing in particular on the corpus of Demotic narrative literature surviving from the Greco-Roman Period.

Author : Ryan S. Schellenberg
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589837800
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Paul's Rhetorical Education written by Ryan S. Schellenberg and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies 2015 F. W. Beare Award Did Paul have formal training in Greco-Roman rhetoric, or did he learn what he knew of persuasion informally, as social practice? Pauline scholars recognize the importance of this question both for determining Paul’s social status and for conceptualizing the nature of his letters, but they have been unable to reach a consensus. Using 2 Corinthians 10–13 as a test case, Ryan Schellenberg undertakes a set of comparisons with non-Western speakers—most compellingly, the Seneca orator Red Jacket—to demonstrate that the rhetorical strategies Paul employs in this text are also attested in speakers known to have had no formal training in Greco-Roman rhetoric. Since there are no specific indicators of formal training in the way Paul uses these strategies, their appearance in his letters does not constitute evidence that Paul received formal rhetorical education.

Author : Bruno Currie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191081507
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer's Allusive Art written by Bruno Currie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of allusion is possible in a poetry derived from a centuries-long oral tradition, and what kind of oral-derived poetry are the Homeric epics? Comparison of Homeric epic with South Slavic heroic song has suggested certain types of answers to these questions, yet the South Slavic paradigm is neither straightforward in itself nor necessarily the only pertinent paradigm: Augustan Latin poetry uses many sophisticated and highly self-conscious techniques of allusion which can, this book contends, be suggestively paralleled in Homeric epic, and some of the same techniques of allusion can be found in Near Eastern poetry of the third and second millennia BC. By attending to these various paradigms, this challenging study argues for a new understanding of Homeric allusion and its place in literary history, broaching the question of whether there can have been historical continuity in a poetics of allusion stretching from the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh, via the Iliad and Odyssey, to the Aeneid and Metamorphoses, despite the enormous disparities of time and place and of language and culture, including those represented by the cuneiform tablet, the papyrus roll, and by an oral performance culture. The fundamental methodological problems are explored through a series of interlocking case studies, treating of how the Odyssey conceivably alludes to the Iliad and also to earlier poetry on Odysseus' homecoming, the Iliad to earlier poetry on the Ethiopian hero Memnon, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter to earlier poetry on Hades' abduction of Persephone, and early Greek epic to Mesopotamian mythological poetry, pre-eminently the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh.

Author : Rebecca Laemmle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110712237
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond written by Rebecca Laemmle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists and catalogues have been en vogue in philosophy, cultural, media and literary studies for more than a decade. These explorations of enumerative modes, however, have not yet had the impact on classical scholarship that they deserve. While they routinely take (a limited set of) ancient models as their starting point, there is no comparably comprehensive study that focuses on antiquity; conversely, studies on lists and catalogues in Classics remain largely limited to individual texts, and – with some notable exceptions – offer little in terms of explicit theorising. The present volume is an attempt to close this gap and foster the dialogue between the recent theoretical re-appraisal of enumerative modes and scholarship on ancient cultures. The 16 contributions to the volume juxtapose literary forms of enumeration with an abundance of ancient non-, sub- or para-literary practices of listing and cataloguing. In their different approaches to this vast and heterogenous corpus, they offer a sense of the hermeneutic, epistemic and methodological challenges with which the study of enumeration is faced, and elucidate how pragmatics, materiality, performativity and aesthetics are mediated in lists and catalogues.

Author : Baukje van den Berg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192865439
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer the Rhetorician written by Baukje van den Berg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer the Rhetorician is the first monograph study devoted to the monumental Commentary on the Iliad by Eustathios of Thessalonike, one of the most renowned orators and teachers of the Byzantine twelfth century. Homeric poetry was a fixture in the Byzantine educational curriculum and enjoyed special popularity under the Komnenian emperors. For Eustathios, Homer was the supreme paradigm of eloquence and wisdom. Writing for an audience of aspiring or practising prose writers, he explains in his commentary what it is that makes Homer's composition so successful in rhetorical terms. This study explores the exemplary qualities that Eustathios recognizes in the poet as author and the Iliad as rhetorical masterpiece. In this way, it advances our understanding of the rhetorical thought of a leading intellectual and the role of a cultural authority as respected as Homer in one of the most fertile periods in Byzantine literary history.

Author : Jonathan L. Ready
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198802552
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives written by Jonathan L. Ready and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a new take on what made the Homeric epics such successful examples of verbal artistry, this volume explores the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from the neglected comparative perspectives offered by the study of modern-day oral traditions