The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion - Softcover

Fantuzzi, Marco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108730264 ISBN 13: 9781108730266

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

A thorough introduction to these important, but fragmentary, early Greek narrative poems so crucial for understanding Homer and Greek mythology.

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About the Authors

Marco Fantuzzi teaches Greek Literature as Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York, and at Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy. His publications include Achilles in Love (2012), Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (with R. Hunter, 2004), Ricerche su Apollonio Rodio: diacronie della dizione epica (1988), Bionis Smyrnaei Adonidis epitaphium (1985), Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral (edited with T. Papanghelis, 2006), Struttura e storia dell'esametro greco (edited with R. Pretagostini, 1995–6) and forthcoming commentary on the Rhesus ascribed to Euripides. Among his present research interests are Greek tragedy, Hellenistic poetry, Greek and Latin metrics, and ancient literary criticism and scholarship.

Christos Tsagalis is Professor of Greek at the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. His research interests encompass Homer, Hesiod, historiography, and the Greek epigram. His books include Epic Grief: Personal Laments in Homer's Iliad (2004), The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics (2008), Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-Century Attic Funerary Epigrams (2008) and From Listeners to Viewers: Space in the Iliad (2012), as well as articles on Homer, Hesiod, Bacchylides, Herodotus, and Xenophon. He has edited, among other volumes, Brill's Companion to Hesiod (with F. Montanari and A. Rengakos, 2009), Homeric Hypertextuality (2010), a special issue of the journal Trends in Classics, and Theban Resonances in Homeric Epic (2014), another special issue of the journal Trends in Classics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108730264
• ISBN 13: 9781108730266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 694