Homer and the Epic Cycle: Recovering the Oral Traditional Relationship

by <b>Andrew Porter</b>

How can the ancient relationship between Homer and the Epic Cycle be recovered? Using findings from the most significant research in the field, Andrew Porter questions many ancient and modern assumptions and offers alternative perspectives better aligned with ancient epic performance realities and modern epic studies. Porter's volume addresses a number of related issues: the misrepresentation of Cyclic (and Homeric) epic by Aristotle and his inheritors;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004455485
• ISBN13: 9789004455481
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 132 Pages