Ancient Epic Poetry

Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Jörg Rüpke; Dr. Sofia Bianchi Mancini

doi:10.5771/9783748943730

Summary

Epics are the oldest written long texts in many languages. They claim to recount fundamental events and seek to give validity to their version through formal composition. This volume provides an overview of Greek and Latin epic poetry from Homer to Late Antiquity. But above all it asks: How were they made audible? Who wanted to read or listen to them? And how did this change the texts? The professionalisation of such great works also led to competition, outbidding, but also to parody or condensation of the texts. This book is the first to provide a broad and coherent overview from such a perspective.Jörg Rüpke was Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Potsdam from 1995 to 1999 and Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt from 1999 to 2008. Since 2008 he has been Fellow of Religious Studies at the Max Weber Centre in Erfurt.Sofia Bianchi Mancini studied Classics at the University of Wales Trinity St David and completed her doctorate at the University of Erfurt in 2021. Since 2021 she is a postdoctoral researcher, working on 'Divine Property: Late Antiquity and Medieval Solutions' at the Max Weber Centre in Erfurt.

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7560-1676-1
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-4373-0
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: NomosTextbook
Language: English
Pages: 175
Product type: Educational Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 8
1. 0.1 A wide world No access
2. 0.2 Questions No access
3. 0.3 Epic No access
4. 0.4 Genre No access
5. 0.5 The goal No access
1. 1.1 Homer No access
2. 1.2 The text No access
3. 1. 1.3.1 Oral poetry No access
  2. 1.3.2 Written form No access
  3. 1.3.3 Achievements of the written form No access
4. 1.4 The audience No access
5. 1.5 The first epics No access
6. 1. 1.6.1 Contents No access
  2. 1.6.2 Structure No access
  3. 1.6.3 Characteristics No access
  4. 1.6.4 Troy and the question of sources No access
7. 1. 1.7.1 Contents No access
  2. 1.7.2 Structure No access
8. 1.8 Reception history No access
9. 1. 1.9.1 Theogony No access
  2. 1.9.2 Works and Days No access
  3. 1.9.3 The epic poet as "moralist" No access
2 Hellenistic epic poetry No access Pages 45 - 46
1. 3.1 Greek influences in the pre-literary period No access
2. 3.2 The findings No access
3. 3.3 The problem No access
4. 3.4 Procedure No access
5. 3.5 Inventory and localisation of oral literature No access
6. 3.6 Additions to the “Sitz im Leben” No access
7. 3.7 Crystallisation nuclei of the transcription process No access
8. 3.8 Epics No access
9. 3.9 Changes in the overall system of literary communication No access
10. 3.10 The performance of the written epic No access
1. 1. 4.1.1 Person and work No access
  2. 4.1.2 Annales No access
  3. 4.1.3 Context No access
2. 4.2 The further Roman development No access
3. 4.3 Rome No access
5 Catullus No access Pages 75 - 76
1. 6.1 Expository poetry No access
2. 6.2 The Epicurean No access
3. 6.3 Overview No access
4. 6.4 Statement No access
1. 7.1 Biography No access
2. 7.2 Basic decisions No access
3. 7.3 Contents No access
4. 1. 7.4.1 Virgil and the history of European literature No access
  2. 7.4.2 Contemporary reception No access
5. 1. 7.5.1 The main character of the Aeneid is Virgil No access
  2. 7.5.2 The subject of the Aeneid is contemporary Rome No access
  3. 7.5.3 Not an operation of the gods but of men in the Aeneid No access
  4. 7.5.4 The Aeneid is not an epic of heroes, but of proletarians No access
1. 8.1 Reception No access
2. 8.2 About the person No access
3. 8.3 Metamorphoses: A first approach No access
4. 8.4 Augustan epic No access
5. 1. 8.5.1 Metamorphoses No access
  2. 8.5.2 Grand epic No access
  3. 8.5.3 Systematisation No access
  4. 8.5.4 Action guidance No access
  5. 8.5.5 Ovid and his predecessors No access
  6. 8.5.6 Narrative in the epic No access
  7. 8.5.7 Individual motifs No access
  8. 8.5.8 Living parody No access
1. 9.1 History in Greek No access
2. 9.2 Latin epics No access
3. 9.3 Lucan No access
4. 1. 9.4.1 Title and sources No access
  2. 9.4.2 Contents No access
  3. 9.4.3 Agenda No access
5. 9.5 Silius Italicus No access
6. 9.6 Outlook No access
1. 10.1 Greek epics and didactic poetry No access
2. 10.2 Valerius Flaccus No access
3. 1. 10.3.1 About the person No access
  2. 10.3.2 Thebaid: Contents No access
  3. 10.3.3 Composition No access
  4. 10.3.4 Uniformity No access
1. 1. 11.1.1 Historical overview No access
  2. 11.1.2 The literary-historical turning point No access
  3. 11.1.3 Clarification 1: Christianity No access
  4. 11.1.4 Specification 2: Epyllia No access
  5. 11.1.5 Relativisation: Greek epic poetry No access
  6. 11.1.6 Development strands No access
2. 1. 11.2.1 General information No access
  2. 11.2.2 Claudius Claudianus No access
3. 1. 11.3.1 Initial phase No access
  2. 11.3.2 Main phase No access
12 Epilogue No access Pages 157 - 158
Selected bibliography No access Pages 159 - 168
Index No access Pages 169 - 175

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