Description
Book SynopsisLouden's innovative method yields striking new insights into the formation and early literary contexts of Greek epic poetry.
Trade ReviewHis is an original approach. -- William F. Wyatt New England Classical Journal 2007 Useful to any scholar interested in issues of Homeric structure and unity, as well as comparatists interested in a Near Eastern context for Greek literature. -- D. Thomas Benediktson Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008 An eye-opener... A very readable and accessible book indeed. -- Erik Van Dongen Bibliotheca Orientalis 2007
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Principal Narrative Pattern
2. The Overture
3. The Middle Sequence: Parody of the Narrative Pattern
4. The Introductory Pattern: The Best of the Akhaians Calls an Assembly
5. Subgenres of Myth in the Iliad I
6. Subgenres of Myth in the Iliad II: The Iliad's Divine Economy, the Goddess Anat, and the Homeric Athena
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
