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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-06 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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 myt
Language: en
Pages: 314
Pages: 314
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-21 - Publisher: JHU Press
Presents a challenge to Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger context of the entire body o
Language: en
Pages: 0
Pages: 0
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-28 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
West presents all the source material and provides the first comprehensive commentary on the lost Troy epics, making full use of iconographic as well as literar
Language: en
Pages: 273
Pages: 273
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Benjamin Sammons argues that the poems of the so-called 'Epic Cycle' were constructed using the same traditional devices as the Homeric epics. From this insight
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-03 - Publisher: Penguin UK
The story of Helen and the judgement of Paris, of the gathering Heroes and the seige of Troy; of Achilles and his vulnerable heel, reared by the Centaur on wild
