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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199662258

ISBN-139780199662258

eBay Product ID (ePID)117343403

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Number of Pages346 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameEpic Cycle : a Commentary on the Lost Troy Epics

SubjectSubjects & Themes / Historical events, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy

AuthorM. L. West

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight19.7 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2013-409803

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Reviewsrich and valuable work ... Students and scholars will derive great benefit from West's labours, for his convenient collection and analysis of the ancient source material for the Cycle (e.g., attestations in literature and art), as much as for his wide-ranging and coherent treatment of the Cycle overall. English readers could hardly ask for a better synoptic analysis of the endlessly fascinating remains of this corpus of poetry, which will form the basis for future discussions of theCycle for decades to come.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal883.01

Table Of ContentPrefaceAbbreviationsProlegomena1. What was the Epic Cycle?2. Proclus Chrestomatheias Eklogai and Apollodorus Bibliotheke3. The formation of the Cycle4. Ascriptions5. Reflexes in Archaic and Classical art and literature6. The Cycle in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods7. Reconstructing the poemsCommentaries1. Cypria2. Aethiopis3. Little Iliad4. Iliou Persis5. Nostoi6. TelegonyExcursus: The Death of OdysseusBibliographyIndexes

SynopsisWest presents all the source material and provides the first comprehensive commentary on the lost Troy epics, making full use of iconographic as well as literary evidence. Discussing the individual fragments and testimonia, he endeavours to reconstruct the connections between them and to build up a picture of the plan and course of each poem., The Iliad and Odyssey do not cover the main story of the Trojan War. The whole saga, which includes Zeus' plan to reduce the world's population, the Judgment of Paris and seduction of Helen, the start of the campaign, the Wooden Horse, the fall of Achilles, the homecoming of Agamemnon, and the eventual death of Odysseus, was related in six other epics, dating from 630-560 BCE, that were influential for lyric poets, tragedians, and artists of the classical age but are known to us only through fragments and brief prose summaries. In this book Martin West presents all the source material and provides the first comprehensive commentary on it, making full use of iconographic as well as literary evidence. Discussing the individual fragments and testimonia, he endeavours to reconstruct the connections between them, so far as possible, and to build up a picture of the plan and course of each poem. In a substantial introduction he addresses general issues, including the nature and formation of the Epic Cycle, the status of the summaries of the Troy epics preserved under the name of Proclus, the validity of the attested ascriptions to particular poets, the reflexes of the Cycle in early art and literature, and its fortunes in and after the Hellenistic period.

LC Classification NumberPN56.T76