Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts by Athanasios Efstathiou

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Provides a fresh perspective on Homeric reception through a focused, interdisciplinary investigation of the transformations of Homeric epic within varying generic and cultural contexts. This book explores how various aspects of Homeric poetics can be mapped on to a diversity of contexts under different historical, literary and artistic conditions.

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Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts by Athanasios Efstathiou

This collective volume provides a fresh perspective on Homeric reception through a methodologically focused, interdisciplinary investigation of the transformations of Homeric epic within varying generic and cultural contexts. It explores how various aspects of Homeric poetics appeal and can be mapped on to a diversity of contexts under different socio-historical, intellectual, literary and artistic conditions. The volume brings together internationally acclaimed scholars and acute young researchers in the fields of classics and reception studies, yielding insight into the varied strategies and ideological forces that define Homeric reception in literature, scholarship and the performing arts (theatre, film and music) and shape the 'horizon of expectations' of readers and audience. This collection also showcases that the wide-ranging 'migration' of Homeric material through time and across place holds significant cultural power, being instrumental in the construction of new cultural identities. The volume is of particular interest to scholars in the fields of classics, reception and cultural studies and the performing arts, as well as to readers fascinated by ancient literature and its cultural transformations.
Athanasios Efstathiou, Ionian University, Corfu; Ioanna Karamanou, University of the Peloponnese, Nafplio, Greece.
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ISBN 13 9783110477832
ISBN 10 3110477831
Title Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts
Author Athanasios Efstathiou
Series Trends In Classics - Supplementary Volumes
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher De Gruyter
Year published 2016-07-11
Number of pages 505
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