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Title:

HOMER'S PEOPLE
EPIC POETRY AND SOCIAL FORMATION

By:

Johannes Haubold

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521066417

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9780521066419

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 March, 2008

Series:

Cambridge Classical Studies

Pages:

260

Description:

The first study to examine the role and character of Homer's people in Homeric story-telling.

Synopsis:

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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Cambridge University Press

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