- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (690 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Summary
- The poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myths and narratives which took their present form in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The remains of these texts allow us to investigate diachronic aspects of epic diction as well as the extent of variation within it on the part of individual authors - two of the most important questions in modern research on archaic epic. They also help to illuminate the early history of Greek mythology. Access to the poems, however, has been thwarted by their current fragmentary state. This volume provides the scholarly community and graduate students with a thorough critical foundation for reading and interpreting them.
- Alternative Title
- The Greek Epic Cycle & its Ancient Reception
- Subject
- Cycles (Literature)
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 May 2016).
- OCLC
- CR9780511998409
- Title
The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception : A Companion / edited by Marco Fantuzzi, Christos Tsagalis.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Fantuzzi, Marco, editor.
Tsagalis, Christos, editor.
- Other Form:
Print version: 9781107012592