TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scully,Stephen
AU  - Nagy,Gregory
TI  - Homer and the Sacred City
T2  - Myth and Poetics
SN  - 9781501737794
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Poetry & Criticism
KW  - POETRY / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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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