Tag: Homeric

Free Download The Argonautika by Orpheus: Writing Pre-Homeric Poetry in Late Antiquity (Mnemosyne, Supplements) by Alexandra Maria Madela
English | December 6, 2024 | ISBN: 9004713840 | True PDF | 272 pages | 2.3 MB
Is it possible to be better than Homer? For most literary critics in late antiquity, the answer was an unequivocal no, but the anonymous author of the Argonautika by Orpheus disagreed.

Free Download Apollonius’ Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns: A Study in Hymnody, Hero Cult, and Homeric Reception (Mnemosyne, Supplements) by Brian McPhee
English | December 6, 2024 | ISBN: 900471510X | True PDF | 456 pages | 3 MB
Apollonius represents a crucial link in the epic tradition spanning Homer and Vergil, but arrestingly, his epic Argonautica rather begins and ends in the style of a Homeric Hymn. This book contends that Apollonius thus frames his poem as an innovative synthesis of both branches of his Homeric inheritance: an "epic hymn" that simultaneously commemorates its protagonists’ glorious deeds and venerates them in their religious capacity as divinized cult heroes.

Free Download Christos Tsagalis, "The winnowing oar – New Perspectives in Homeric Studies"
English | ISBN: 3110543354 | 2017 | 317 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
In the wake of recent advances in the treatment of longstanding problems pertaining to the interpretation of Homeric poetry, this volume brings together cutting-edge research from a cohort of acclaimed scholars on Homer and the Homeric Hymns. The variety of topics covered spans the entire field of Homeric philology: the methods and solutions provided for a new edition of the Odyssey, the puzzle of the relation between the festival of the Panathenaea and the Homeric text, the disclosure of the meaning of notorious cruces pertaining to arcane formulas, the two emblematic heroes of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Achilles and Odysseus, Homeric poetics, the range and use of repetition in a traditional medium, the composition of the Homeric epics, the Apologoi and ‘Cyclic’ Narrative, as well as the Homeric Hymns to Hermes and Aphrodite.

Free Download Two Studies in Greek and Homeric Linguistics By Alan J Nussbaum
1998 | 177 Pages | ISBN: 352525217X | PDF | 8 MB
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Free Download Franco Montanari, "Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry"
English | 2012 | pages: 709 | ISBN: 3110271958 | PDF | 7,2 mb
This volume addresses questionsconcerning Neoanalysis and Oral theory, the two most fruitful schools of thought in Homeric criticism. It explores the development of Greek myth with respect to the Trojan war; the signs of heroic cult in Homeric poetry; the function of memory; the relation between the catalogue of ships and theIliadic narrative; the tragedy of Achilles; the travels of Odysseus; the Telemachy and the Nostoi, the false tales and Crete; the imagery of Odyssean similes; language and formulas; the Epic Cycle; Hesiod and Homer; the epic of Alpamysh; the Iliad and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Free Download S. A. Paipetis, "Science and Technology in Homeric Epics"
English | 2008 | pages: 525 | ISBN: 1402087837, 9401785317 | PDF | 135,2 mb
In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included. Even if those features of Homeric science were just poetic concepts (which on many occasions does not explain the astonishing details of design and manufacture, like the ones included in the present volume), they seem to prove that these achievements were well within human capability. In addition, the substantial development of machine theory during the early post-Homeric age shows that the Homeric descriptions were a kind of prophetic conception of these machines, and scientific research must be a quest for the fundamental principles of knowledge available during the Late Bronze Age and the dawn of the Iron Age.