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Author:   Richard P. Martin
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9781501713101

ISBN 10:   1501713108
Pages:   540
Publication Date:   15 October 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Epic Genre and Technique 1. Epic as Genre 2. Similes and Performance 3. Formulas and Speeches: The Usefulness of Parry's Method 4. Wrapping Homer Up: Cohesion, Discourse, and Deviation in the Iliad Part II: Mythic Hymnists, Historical Performers 5. Apollo's Kithara and Poseidon's Crash-Test: Ritual and Contest in the Evolution of Greek Aesthetics 6. The Senses of an Ending: Myth, Ritual, and Poetic Exodia in Performance 7. Synchronic Aspects of Homeric Performance: The Evidence of the Hymn to Apollo 8. Rhapsodizing Orpheus 9. Golden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets Part III: Hesiodic Constructions 10. Hesiod and the Didactic Double 11. Hesiod's Metanastic Poetics 12. Hesiod, Odysseus, and the Instruction of Princes 13. Pulp Epic: The Catalogue and the Shield Part IV: The Backward Look 14. Keens from the Absent Chorus: Troy to Ulster 15. Telemachus and the Last Hero Song 16. Until It Ends: Varieties of Iliadic Anticipation 17. Distant Landmarks: Homer and Hesiod

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Martin's book is a major collection from one of the most significant scholars of archaic poetry working in the past several decades. In this richly synoptic and synthetic meditation on the complex workings of archaic poetry, Martin builds on and brilliantly transfigures the implications of oral poetics for any study of archaic (and Hellenistic) poetry-and indeed for poetics as a whole. -- Laura Slatkin, Professor of Classics, New York University

Martin's book is a major collection from one of the most significant scholars of archaic poetry working in the past several decades. In this richly synoptic and synthetic meditation on the complex workings of archaic poetry, Martin builds on and brilliantly transfigures the implications of oral poetics for any study of archaic (and Hellenistic) poetry--and indeed for poetics as a whole. --Laura Slatkin, Professor of Classics, New York University

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Richard P. Martin is the Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of Classics at Stanford University. Among his many books are Classical Mythology and The Language of Heroes.

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