Homer's people : epic poetry and social formation /
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...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Introduction: Between the omnipresent hero and the absent polis -- |g 1. |t Laoi in early Greek hexameter poetry. |t 'Shepherd of the people'. |t Privilege and obligation. |t An epic ideal. |t The failed ideal. |t Social structures. |t An incurable imbalance. |t Negative reciprocity. |t Society and the stone. |t 'The people of the Achaeans' -- |g 2. |t Homer's people. |t Laoi in the Iliad. |t Laoi in the Odyssey -- |g 3. |t Laos epic in performance. |t Some preliminary considerations. |t Homer's people outside Homer. |t Similarities. |t Differences. |t The founding people. |t Leos ritual. |t Ritual formulae. |t A festival of institutional progress. |t Laos epic in performance. |g App. A. |t Epic formulae -- |g App. B. |t Ritual formulae. |
| 520 | |a 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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