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Christos Tsagalis Early Greek Epic: Language, Interpretation, Performance Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes Edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos Associate Editors Stavros Frangoulidis · Fausto Montana · Lara Pagani Serena Perrone · Evina Sistakou · Christos Tsagalis Scientific Committee Alberto Bernabé · Margarethe Billerbeck Claude Calame · Kathleen Coleman · Jonas Grethlein Philip R. Hardie · Stephen J. Harrison · Stephen Hinds Richard Hunter · Giuseppe Mastromarco Gregory Nagy · Theodore D. Papanghelis Giusto Picone · Alessandro Schiesaro Tim Whitmarsh · Bernhard Zimmermann Volume 138 Christos Tsagalis Early Greek Epic: Language, Interpretation, Performance ISBN 978-3-11-099372-1 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-098138-4 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-098140-7 ISSN 1868-4785 Library of Congress Control Number: 2022917159 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Editorial Office: Alessia Ferreccio and Katerina Zianna Logo: Christopher Schneider, Laufen Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com For Jonathan Burgess Preface Τhe 20 studies included in this volume represent a portion of my research in the field of early Greek epic during the last 20 years. They are preceded by an Intro- duction and are organized in four parts: Homer, Hesiod, the Epic Cycle, and the performance of epic. In the Introduction, I offer a general presentation of the progress made in the field of archaic Greek epic in the last decades and explain where my own contribution falls within this research field. In parts I-III, I begin with studies dealing with general topics, then I present those pertaining to more than one epic, and finally those concerning individual poems. Part IV begins with a general topic pertaining to performance, while the other three studies are presented according to the chronological order of the material they contain. Some of the studies included in this volume are reprinted in their original form, while others have been revised with additions and further bibliography. The purpose of this selective updating is to remedy certain infelicities, to engage with studies which appeared after the initial publication of my own work, as well as to make more thorough certain points which I have revisited in the course of time. All translations of Homeric passages are based on Lattimore 1951 and Rieu 2003 for the Iliad and the Odyssey respectively. For Cyclic epic, I have used the translation of Burgess 2001. For Apollodorus and Hyginus, I have consulted the translation of Scott Smith and Trzaskoma 2007. When I provide my own transla- tion, I note it in a footnote. I am grateful to the editors of TCSV Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos, for including this book in their highly successful series. The dedica- tion to Jonathan Burgess is a token of appreciation to a scholar who has been a source of inspiration for me during the last 20 years. Christos Tsagalis Thessaloniki, April 2022 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110981384-202 Contents Preface VII List of Abbreviations XI List of the Original Publication Venues XIII List of Tables XV Introduction XVII Part I: Homer Towards an Oral, Intertextual Neoanalysis 3 Detextualizing Homer: Intonation Units, Background Knowledge, and the Proems of the Iliad and the Odyssey 34 The Dynamic Hypertext: Lists and Catalogues in the Homeric Epics 43 Naming Helen: Localization, Meter, and Semantics of a Homeric Character 68 Epic Space Revisited: Narrative and Intertext in the Episode between Diomedes and Glaucus (Il. 6.119–236) 83 Ἀπ᾽/κατ᾽ αἰγίλιπος πέτρης: Homeric Iconyms and Hittite Answers 110 Revisiting an Old Crux: Iliad 11.609–610 133 Iliad 11.662: A Note 155 Deauthorizing the Epic Cycle: Odysseus’ False Tale to Eumaeus (Od. 14.199–359) 163 X Contents Part II: Hesiod Poetry and Poetics in the Hesiodic Corpus 209 Soundplay in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women 256 Part III: The Epic Cycle The Gods in Cyclic Epic 283 γυναίων εἵνεκα δώρων: Interformularity and Intertraditionality in Theban and Homeric Epic 312 Cypria fr. 19 (PEG, GEF): A Reconsideration 355 Telegony 384 Verses Attributed to the Telegony 407 Part IV: The Performance of Epic Ἀοιδός and ῥαψῳδός: Methodological Problems and Assumptions 427 Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Archaic and Classical Periods 463 Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Hellenistic Period 511 Rhapsodes and Rhapsodic Recitals in the Imperial Period 543 Bibliography 577 General Index 609 Index of Hesiodic and Homeric Passages 623
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