Description
Book SynopsisTaking a holistic approach to performances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this multidisciplinary volume examines both the rhapsodes who performed the poems and the narrators and characters within them.
Trade ReviewA thought-provoking panoply of approaches to Homeric performance...The essays are for the most part of high quality, and the book is beautifully edited and produced, with a very useful bibliography...this is a fine volume of essays providing a variety of ways in to the interaction of performance and text in the Homeric poems. * Classical World *
"This collective volume seeks new angles from which to appreciate the artistry of Homeric epic by bearing down on its mode of performance, that blend of authoritative narrative and dramatic enactment called rhapsody...This volume shows that it can be profitable to consider epic rhapsody both as a popular mode of institutionalized storytelling and as a medium with unique resources for poetic expressivity." * Journal of Hellenic Studies *
Table of Contents
- A Note on Iota Adscript and the Transliteration of Proper Nouns
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction (Jonathan L. Ready and Christos C. Tsagalis)
- Part I. Rhapsodes
- Chapter 1. Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Archaic and Classical Periods (Christos C. Tsagalis)
- Chapter 2. Reading Rhapsodes on Athenian Vases (Sheramy D. Bundrick)
- Chapter 3. Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Hellenistic Period (Christos C. Tsagalis)
- Chapter 4. Rhapsodes and Rhapsodic Contests in the Imperial Period (Anne Gangloff)
- Chapter 5. Formed on the Festival Stage: Plot and Characterization in the Iliad as a Competitive Collaborative Process (Mary R. Bachvarova)
- Chapter 6. Did Sappho and Homer Ever Meet? Comparative Perspectives on Homeric Singers (Olga Levaniouk)
- Part II. Narrators and Characters
- Chapter 7. Odysseus Polyonymous (Deborah Beck)
- Chapter 8. Embedded Focalization and Free Indirect Speech in Homer as Viewpoint Blending (Anna Bonifazi)
- Chapter 9. Speech Training and the Mastery of Context: Thoas the Aetolian and the Practice of Muthoi (Joel P. Christensen)
- Chapter 10. Diomedes as Audience and Speaker in the Iliad (James O’Maley)
- Chapter 11. Hektor, the Marginal Hero: Performance Theory and the Homeric Monologue (Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr.)
- Chapter 12. Performance, Oral Texts, and Entextualization in Homeric Epic (Jonathan L. Ready)
- Chapter 13. Homer’s Rivals? Internal Narrators in the Iliad (Adrian Kelly)
- Works Cited
- Contributors
- Index of Terms
- Index of Passages
