The Suitors in the Odyssey The Clash Between Homer and Archilochus |
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| Author:
| Steinrück, Martin. |
| Series title: | Hermeneutic Commentaries Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4331-0475-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $105.30 |
Book Description:
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The suitors in the
Odyssey strikingly resemble a very specific audience of iambic poets such as Archilochus or Semonides. Justifying these young men's deaths, the
Odyssey engages in a polemic intertext with Archilochus' attacks against the threatening epic discourse. This study is concerned with reading both the traces of this often hidden quarrel in the
Odyssey and the answers we can find within the iambic texts. Although iambus and epos have been connected in...
More DescriptionThe suitors in the Odyssey strikingly resemble a very specific audience of iambic poets such as Archilochus or Semonides. Justifying these young men's deaths, the Odyssey engages in a polemic intertext with Archilochus' attacks against the threatening epic discourse. This study is concerned with reading both the traces of this often hidden quarrel in the Odyssey and the answers we can find within the iambic texts. Although iambus and epos have been connected in earlier studies, the direct portrait of the iambic audience within the Odyssey has not been examined. This book allows the reader to see these issues in the larger social context.