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OverviewThe Iliad and Odyssey do not cover the main story of the Trojan War. The whole saga, which includes Zeus' plan to reduce the world's population, the Judgment of Paris and seduction of Helen, the start of the campaign, the Wooden Horse, the fall of Achilles, the homecoming of Agamemnon, and the eventual death of Odysseus, was related in six other epics, dating from 630-560 BCE, that were influential for lyric poets, tragedians, and artists of the classical age but are known to us only through fragments and brief prose summaries. In this book Martin West presents all the source material and provides the first comprehensive commentary on it, making full use of iconographic as well as literary evidence. Discussing the individual fragments and testimonia, he endeavours to reconstruct the connections between them, so far as possible, and to build up a picture of the plan and course of each poem. In a substantial introduction he addresses general issues, including the nature and formation of the Epic Cycle, the status of the summaries of the Troy epics preserved under the name of Proclus, the validity of the attested ascriptions to particular poets, the reflexes of the Cycle in early art and literature, and its fortunes in and after the Hellenistic period. Full Product DetailsAuthor: The late M. L. West (Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.558kg ISBN: 9780199662258ISBN 10: 0199662258 Pages: 346 Publication Date: 28 March 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Prolegomena 1: What was the Epic Cycle? 2: Proclus Chrestomatheias Eklogai and Apollodorus Bibliotheke 3: The formation of the Cycle 4: Ascriptions 5: Reflexes in Archaic and Classical art and literature 6: The Cycle in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods 7: Reconstructing the poems Commentaries 1: Cypria 2: Aethiopis 3: Little Iliad 4: Iliou Persis 5: Nostoi 6: Telegony Excursus: The Death of Odysseus Bibliography IndexesReviewsrich and valuable work ... Students and scholars will derive great benefit from West's labours, for his convenient collection and analysis of the ancient source material for the Cycle (e.g., attestations in literature and art), as much as for his wide-ranging and coherent treatment of the Cycle overall. English readers could hardly ask for a better synoptic analysis of the endlessly fascinating remains of this corpus of poetry, which will form the basis for future discussions of the Cycle for decades to come. Patrick O'Sullivan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Author InformationThe late Martin West was a Fellow and Praelector at University College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1974, then Professor of Greek at Bedford and Royal Holloway Colleges London till 1991, and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College Oxford from 1991 to 2004. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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