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Louden's innovative method yields striking new insights into the formation and early literary contexts of Greek epic poetry.

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His 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 Contents

Acknowledgments
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

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/06/2006
      ISBN13: 9780801882807, 978-0801882807
      ISBN10: 080188280X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Louden's innovative method yields striking new insights into the formation and early literary contexts of Greek epic poetry.

      Trade Review
      His 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 Contents

      Acknowledgments
      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

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