Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / Jonathan L. Ready and Christos C. Tsagalis -- pt. 1. Rhapsodes -- Performance contexts for rhapsodic recitals in the archaic and classical periods / Christos C. Tsagalis -- Reading rhapsodes on Athenian vases / Sheramy D. Bundrick -- Performance contexts for rhapsodic recitals in the Hellenistic period / Christos C. Tsagalis -- Rhapsodes and rhapsodic contests in the imperial period / Anne Gangloff -- Formed on the festival stage : plot and characterization in the iliad as a competitive collaborative process / Mary R. Bachvarova -- Did Sappho and Homer ever meet? comparative perspectives on homeric singers / Olga Levaniouk -- pt. 2. Narrators and characters -- Odysseus polyonymous / Deborah Beck -- Embedded focalization and free indirect speech in Homer as viewpoint blending / Anna Bonifazi -- Speech training and the mastery of context : Thoas the Aetolian and the practice of muthoi / Joel P. Christensen -- Diomedes as audience and speaker in the Iliad / James O'Maley -- Hektor, the marginal hero : performance theory and the Homeric monologue / Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr -- Performance, oral texts, and entextualization in Homeric epic / Jonathan L. Ready -- Homer's rivals? internal narrators in the Iliad / Adrian Kelly.
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"Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the poems at festivals, often competing against each other. As they recited the epics, the rhapsodes spoke as both the narrator and the characters. These different acts-performing the poem and narrating and speaking in character within it-are seldom studied in tandem. Homer in Performance breaks new ground by bringing together all of the speakers involved in the performance of Homeric poetry: rhapsodes, narrators, and characters." -- Publisher's description
Homer-- Criticism, Textual.
Homer.
Homerus, ca. v8. Jh.
Epic poetry, Greek-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.