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Homer and the Early Epic Tradition
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This chapter seeks to establish what kind of interaction was possible between the Homeric poems and other early Greek epics. The question is crucially affected by the recognition that the early Greek epic tradition is oral-derived traditional poetry. It seems obvious that we must judge the interaction of the early Greek epic poems by different standards from the interaction of, say, Virgil's Aeneid with the epics that preceded it; but just how different will be a theme of the chapter. The question cannot be addressed without considering the relationship between the Homeric epics and the poems of the Epic Cycle, and the difference between an oral poetics and the literary criticism of a written poem: two themes with which Jasper Griffin is particularly associated.
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“79 Currie 2006, 35–36, 2016, 66–67; Nelson 2023, 269–270. convinces Zeus to immortalize her son Memnon,80 and Thetis81 snatches Achilles from the funeral pyre and transfers him to the White Island.82 As these two examples show, Hera’s proleptic reference that is presented as a future possibility…”
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- Currie, B.
- Corresponding author
- Currie, Bruno
- ORCID
- Currie, Bruno
- Venue
- Epic Interactions
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2006-09-28
- Pages
- 1-46
- OpenAlex
- W2503447947
- Semantic Scholar
- 1e0c25bb029557d401ba3294a6fe4aec76597105
- Cited by
- 92
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- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 62.97
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- en
- Open access
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- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Classical Antiquity Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Classical Studies and Philology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Keywords
- Homer, Homeric epic, Epic Cycle, oral poetics, oral tradition, literary influence, Virgil's Aeneid, reception of Homer
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