Epic Grief
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Epic Grief

Personal Laments in Homer's Iliad

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Epic Grief

Personal Laments in Homer's Iliad

About this book

Den poetischen Techniken der Klagerede in Homers Ilias wird hier erstmals eine eigene Untersuchung gewidmet. Die Klagerede ist, wie diese Arbeit nachweist, eine eigene Untergattung, die in der Ilias aus der Gattung der Grabrede hervorgegangen ist. Oralitätsforschung, Narratologie, Semiotik und rhetorische Analyse werden geschickt genutzt um zu untersuchen, auf welche Weise die persönlichen Klagen grundlegende ethische Themen entwickeln und Erzählfäden entwirren, die in das thematische Geflecht der ganzen Ilias (und ihres weiteren Zusammenhangs) eingesponnen sind: Achills Zorn, der Tod von Patroklos und Hektor, Achills Trauer und sein bevorstehender Tod, die Vorahnung von Trojas Zerstörung.

Ausgezeichnet mit dem "Annual Award in Classics" (2007) der Akademie von Athen.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9783110179446
eBook ISBN
9783110896251
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Chapter 1 Reading Iliadic Lament
  2. 1. Death in the Iliad
  3. 2. Γόοι vs Θρῆνοι
  4. 3. Selection Criteria
  5. 4. Types of Γόοι
  6. 5. Genre and Sub-genre
  7. 6. Defining the Iliadic γόοι
  8. 7. Scope of Research
  9. Chapter 2. The Typology of the Illiadic Γόοι
  10. 2.1. Introductory Remarks
  11. 2.2. Praising Address
  12. 2.3. “Comparison”
  13. 2.4. Common fate
  14. 2.5. “Death-Wish”
  15. 2.6. Past and Present
  16. 2.7. Tripartite Structure
  17. 2.8. Ring-Composition
  18. 2.9. Antiphonal Element
  19. Chapter 3. Introductory and Closing Formulas
  20. 3.1. Speech-formulas, speech-classification and γόος-speeches
  21. 3.2. Personal lament speech introductions
  22. 3.3. Personal lament speech closures
  23. 3.4. Privileged Individuals and Unprivileged Chorus
  24. Chapter 4. Distance, Separation and Mors Immatura: Common Motifs in the Iliadic γόοι
  25. 4.1. Distance and Separation
  26. 4.2. Closeness
  27. 4.3. Mors immatura
  28. Chapter 5. Intratextual Readings
  29. 5.1. Introductory Remarks
  30. 5.2. Agamemnon
  31. 5.3. Andromache
  32. 5.4. Thetis
  33. 5.5. Briseis
  34. 5.6. Achilles
  35. 5.7. Priam
  36. 5.8. Hecuba
  37. 5.9. Helen
  38. Conclusion
  39. Appendix I Privileged and Unprivileged Dead
  40. 1. Unreported γόοι in the Iliad
  41. 2. The Therapeutics of Lament
  42. Appendix II Short obituaries in the Iliad
  43. 1. Introductory remarks
  44. 2. Types of Short Obituaries
  45. 2.1. The Brief SO
  46. 2.2. The Expanded SO
  47. 3. Iliadic γόοι between mirroring and deflecting
  48. Table 1
  49. Table 2
  50. Bibliography
  51. Editions, Commentaries, Concordances, Grammars, Lexica
  52. Works Cited
  53. Indexes
  54. General Index
  55. Index of Homeric Passages
  56. Index of Greek Words