Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
- Submitting institution
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University of Winchester
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 28PB2
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781316800034
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- 29 - Classics
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This publication stems from a conference organised by the three co-editors that took place in Durham in 2012. Each co-editor had an active and equal part in all the stages of the project, from conference to publication. Bassino contributed to co-organising and running the original conference (including helping to select topics and invite speakers), liaising with the authors and reviewing drafts, and co-writing the introduction.
The contributors were invited on the basis of their expertise in particular fields of archaic Greek epic, and include both established academics and early career scholars (as of the time of the conference). Together, they offer a comprehensive analysis of the themes of conflict and consensus in archaic Greek epic, one that takes into account all the main relevant texts – the canonical Homeric poems Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod’s Works and Days and Theogony, the Homeric hymns, the fragmentary poems of the epic cycle, and the biographies of the epic poets, as well as the near Eastern epic of Gilgamesh. The contributions are arranged thematically so as to explore the theme of conflict and consensus in relation to ‘god’, ‘heroes’, and ‘mortals’ in epic poetry, to inspire reflection on all the main actors of this literary genre.
Collecting and synthetising the insights of the individual chapters, the introduction argues that the themes of conflict and consensus matter in archaic Greek epic from a dual perspective: as thematic concerns within the poems, and as forces shaping their early reception. It does so by discussing issues of poetics and metapoetics, internal and external audiences, competition inside the narrative and competing narratives, local and Panhellenic traditions, narrative closure, and the making of canonical literature.
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