Greek Epic Cycle
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Seguendo un modello teorico, questo lavoro mostra come l’autore dell’Iliade sia consapevole della potenziale contraddittorietà tra la versione tradizionale della storia dell’ira e la versione che egli elabora, gestendo entrambe secondo le... more
This article shows that the mourning of Thetis at the start of Iliad Book 18 is not an atypical or under-motivated motif derived from (or alluding to) the Aithiopis, but an extraordinary example of the 'prospective lamentation' typical... more
This book is the edited proceedings from the conference 'The Art of Stesichorus' held at St John's College, Oxford, on June 29–30 2012. Contributors include: Ewen Bowie (Oxford), Chris Carey (London), Patrick Finglass (Nottingham),... more
*preview copy. Message me if you do not have institutional access. This essay explores the death of Odysseus in the Telegony and Odyssey through the diction of agnoēsis (non-recognition) and anagnōrisis (recognition). Agnoēsis is a... more
This work aims to review our present scientific knowledge of the Cyclic Thebais, a Greek epic poem of the archaic Age, ascribed in the sources to Homer. The first part of the investigation (Introduction) defines the objectives, considers... more
This survey article, with commentary on selected fragments, suggests that the Little Iliad was a heavily pro-Odysseus poem, which used a series of ambush or deception patterns as its basic narrative device. The attached article is the... more
This paper examines the meaning and connectedness of Kleos (eternal glory, fame), Nostos (homecoming, heroic return) and Ponos (toil, ordeal, pain) in various myths from the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Epic Cycle. Despite being essential... more
In the Hecuba of Euripides, Polymestor expresses the wish to fly to the sky, next to Sirius and Orion. This sets the time of the year in the early summer. The paper argues that Euripides was aware of attempts in fifth-century... more
""This contribution deals with the circumstances in which the Homeric Thebais was written down in archaic Greece. It continues a previous work (J. B. Torres, La Tebaida homérica como fuente de Ilíada y Odisea [The Homeric Thebais as a... more
This work examines the traditional language of the cyclical Thebais fragments by studying linguistic and formulaic data with a view towards establishing its chronology relative to the two great Homeric epics. From this analysis we... more
The female presence in the Odyssey is very strong. This has led contemporary scholars to regard that the Odyssey was the work of a woman. Many of these females which Odysseus, the main hero, encounters are imbued with rather perilous... more
Myth reigns in Troy, where literature inspires archaeology. The ever popular ‘story’ about the Trojan War is in fact a complex mosaic: a cycle of stories that have reached us from different sides and in various forms, throughout the ages.... more
In this paper the noun-epithet group “blond Helen” (Ibycus, S 151 PMGF, v. 5) is presented in connexion with similar expressions both in Sappho (23 PLF, v. 5) and Stesichorus (S 103 PMGF, v. 5); the possibility of a common source is argued.
The author revises te evidence surrounding the identity of the author of the Cyclic Thebais. After examining the evidence for and against considering Homer as the poem's author, the author of the article presents a history of the ancient... more
L'articolo evidenzia come nei frammenti dei Cypria l'uso di alcune forme dell'imperfetto di εἰμί (ἦν, ἤην) sia concorde con gli sviluppi diacronici della lingua dell'epica arcaica e propone un'interpretazione linguistica a difesa della... more
The aim of this paper is to explore the use of the word κύκλος and its derivatives (κυκλικός, κύκλιος, κυκλικῶς) as literary terms for the description of the Epic Cycle. Given the prominent meanings of the word in the Iliad (wheel,... more
While both the Homeric and the non-Homeric epics employ the same formulaic system to express the idea of proximity to the river Ocean, the contextual semantics of the expressions in question seem to be different. While the Homeric... more
This paper analyzes the character of Tiresias in the Odyssey. It presents and discusses what the Odyssey recounts about the soothsayer. Then the fragmentary epic texts (shamanic poetry and Stesichorus included), together with the... more
This chapter offers an alternative to textualist models and the assumptions that underlie them by weighing other ways in which epic stories can relate to one another and by querying the very notion of an organized, integral cycle as... more