| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge classical studies
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Cambridge classical studies.
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| Note |
Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Cambridge University. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Between the omnipresent hero and the absent polis -- 1. Laoi in early Greek hexameter poetry. 'Shepherd of the people'. Privilege and obligation. An epic ideal. Failed ideal. Social structures. An incurable imbalance. Negative reciprocity. Society and the stone. 'The people of the Achaeans' -- 2. Homer's people. Laoi in the Iliad. Laoi in the Odyssey -- 3. Laos epic in performance. Some preliminary considerations. Homer's people outside Homer. Similarities. Differences. Founding people. Leos ritual. Ritual formulae. A festival of institutional progress. Laos epic in performance. App. A. Epic formulae -- App. B. Ritual formulae. |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Homer -- Political and social views.
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Homer. |
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Political and social views. |
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Homer. |
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Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
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Epic poetry, Greek. |
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Politics and literature -- Greece.
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Politics and literature. |
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Greece. |
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Literature and society -- Greece.
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Literature and society. |
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Social structure in literature.
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Social structure in literature. |
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Community life in literature.
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Community life in literature. |
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Oral-formulaic analysis.
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Oral-formulaic analysis. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haubold, Johannes. Homer's people 0521770092 (DLC) 99037676 (OCoLC)41641418 |
| ISBN |
9780511410253 (electronic book) |
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0511410255 (electronic book) |
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9781107297975 (electronic book) |
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1107297974 (electronic book) |
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9780521770095 |
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0521770092 |
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