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Homer and the Sacred City / Stephen Scully.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Myth and PoeticsPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501737794
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Toward a Definition of the Polis in Homer -- 2. The Sacred Polis -- 3. The Walled Polis -- 4. The People of the Polis -- 5. City Epithets and Homeric Poetics -- 6. History and Composition -- 7. Oikos and Polis in the Homeric Poems -- 8. Achilles, Troy, and Hektor: A Configuration -- Appendix 1. Nature and Technology in Place Epithets -- Appendix 2. Sacred Places -- Appendix 3. Sacred Cities of the East -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Ancient Passages Cited
Summary: The importance of the polis in Homeric literature is most evident in the Iliad, a poem concerned in large measure with the holy city of Troy. Stephen Scully here deepens our understanding of both the poetic and the social significance of the city in Homer through a close analysis of the poem's formulaic language. Drawing on scholarship in literary studies, archaeology, and comparative religion, Scully demonstrates that it is the urban setting of the Iliad, as well as the collision of the individual fates of its characters, which generates its most profound tragic themes.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Toward a Definition of the Polis in Homer -- 2. The Sacred Polis -- 3. The Walled Polis -- 4. The People of the Polis -- 5. City Epithets and Homeric Poetics -- 6. History and Composition -- 7. Oikos and Polis in the Homeric Poems -- 8. Achilles, Troy, and Hektor: A Configuration -- Appendix 1. Nature and Technology in Place Epithets -- Appendix 2. Sacred Places -- Appendix 3. Sacred Cities of the East -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Ancient Passages Cited

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The importance of the polis in Homeric literature is most evident in the Iliad, a poem concerned in large measure with the holy city of Troy. Stephen Scully here deepens our understanding of both the poetic and the social significance of the city in Homer through a close analysis of the poem's formulaic language. Drawing on scholarship in literary studies, archaeology, and comparative religion, Scully demonstrates that it is the urban setting of the Iliad, as well as the collision of the individual fates of its characters, which generates its most profound tragic themes.

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In English.

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