W. G. THALMANN, Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry. Baltimore/London, The John Hopkins University Press, 1984. XXV, 262. Pr. $ 27,50

Mnemosyne ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 41 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 127-131
Author(s):  
I.J.F. De Jong
Keyword(s):  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Greek Epic

The Aorist Infinitives in -EEIN in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

2013 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Nikolaev
Keyword(s):  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
Phase Theory ◽  
Total Absence ◽  
Greek Epic

AbstractThis paper examines the distribution of thematic infinitive endings in early Greek epic in the context of the long-standing debate about the transmission and development of Homeric epic diction. There are no aorist infinitives in -έμεν in Homer which would scan as ◡◡ – before a consonant or caesura (for example *βαλέμεν): instead we find unexplained forms in -έειν (for example βαλέειν). It is argued that this artificially ‘distended’ ending -έειν should be viewed as an actual analogical innovation of the poetic language, resulting from a proportional analogy to the ‘liquid’ futures. The total absence of aoristic -έειν in Hesiod is unlikely to be coincidental: the analogical form must have been the product of a specifically East Ionic Kunstsprache, and so could have been simply unknown in some other Ionian school of epic poetry where Hesiod was trained. Finally, the striking avoidance of anapaestic aorist infinitives in -έειν is argued to be explained better under the ‘diffusionist’ approach to the Aeolic elements in Homeric diction than under the ‘Aeolic phase’ theory.

Greek Epic Poetry: From Eumelos to Panyassis

1970 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Charles Rowan Beye ◽  
G. L. Huxley
Keyword(s):  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Greek Epic

Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry

1986 ◽  
Vol 79 (5) ◽  
pp. 340
Author(s):  
Walter Donlan ◽  
William G. Thalmann
Keyword(s):  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Greek Epic

Greek Epic Poetry from Eumelos to Panyassis. G. L. Huxley

1972 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-206
Author(s):  
Frederick M. Combellack
Keyword(s):  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Greek Epic

Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry

Phoenix ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
R. L. Fowler ◽  
William G. Thalmann
Keyword(s):  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Greek Epic

scholarly journals The Composition and Transmission of the Homeric Poems: A Summary

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Jerome Moran
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Trojan War ◽  
Greek Epic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epic Poems

If the modern oral hypothesis, beginning in the 1920s (see 17 below), about the composition of early Greek epic poetry is correct (a ‘paradigm shift’ in Homeric studies according to Casey Dué), there were many poets who over centuries, beginning perhaps in the middle-to-late Bronze Age, composed in performance many different versions of epic poems, including poems about the Trojan War, and including the subject matter of the Iliad and the Odyssey, vestiges of which survive on papyrus fragments and in the manuscripts of later authors. But the versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey that we have were not the work of many poets but, for the most part, of a single poet. The overall unity of the poems cannot be explained, or explained away, by any theory that posits multiple, successive authorship spanning many years.

Epic Poetry

2009 ◽  
pp. 441-453
Author(s):  
Johannes Haubold
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Narrative Poetry ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Greek Epic ◽  
Ancient Greek Literature

The term ‘epic’, when applied to ancient Greek literature, refers to a set of texts that may be loosely defined as narrative poetry about the deeds of gods and heroes. To a very large extent, this is a reflection of Homer's authority as the most famous epic poet. This article argues that recent comparisons between early Greek epic and modern oral traditions, as well as the discovery and investigation of ancient Hittite and Near Eastern texts, place Greek epic in a much wider literary and historical context.

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