This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people. The investigation draws on a wide range of approaches from formulaic analysis to the study of early performance contexts. From a close reading of the Homeric epics, Homer's people emerge as a community ...
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This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people. The investigation draws on a wide range of approaches from formulaic analysis to the study of early performance contexts. From a close reading of the Homeric epics, Homer's people emerge as a community without effective social structures. When this is viewed from the perspective of Homeric performances in the polis, a contrast between Homer's laoi and the founding people of ritual emerges. While the former typically perish, the survival of the latter is secured by the establishment of successful institutions.
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New. Print on demand Trade paperback (US). Contains: Unspecified. Cambridge Classical Studies . Includes unspecified. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0521770092. 8vo 8"-9" tall; 258 pages; 2000 Cambridge University Press. HC/DJ 1st edition. Soundly bound in original title lettered dust jacket. Prior owner's pencil underscoring, bracketing and marginalia scattered here and there throughout. Jacket a trifle sunned at spine. G/VG.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0521770092. Very Faint foxing to top of textblock. DJ has Very light shelfwear. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve.; This is the first study to examine in detail the role and character of Homer's people (Greek laoi) in Homeric storytelling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both the Iliad and the Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people. The investigation draws on a wide range of approaches from formulaic analysis to the study of early performance contexts.; Cambridge Classical Studies; 8.5 X 5.7 X 0.8 inches; 258 pages.
