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Volume 3 of Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic explores interconnections between the Odyssey and the Nostoi and the Telegony of the Epic Cycle, a collection of lost early Greek epics. The Odyssey is situated between the narrative time of the two Cycle poems, with the Nostoi narrating the returns of heroes after the Trojan War and the Telegony narrating Odysseusâs adventures after his return to Ithaca. The six articles that follow the introduction compare and contrast the three epics, employing different methodologies and reaching divergent conclusions. Topics include pre-Homeric mythological traditions, the potential for intertextuality between orally performed epics, and the flexible boundaries of early epics.
Jonathan S. Burgess, Ph. D. (1995), University of Toronto, is a Professor of Classics at that university. He is the author of The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle (2001), The Death and Afterlife of Achilles (2009), and Homer (2014), and he has published numerous articles on Homer and the Epic Cycle.
Jonathan L. Ready, Ph. D. (2004), University of California, Berkeley, is a Professor of Classics at Indiana University. His most recent monograph is Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts (2019).
Christos C. Tsagalis, Ph. D. (1998), Cornell University, is a Professor Greek at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His most recent monograph is Early Greek Epic Fragments 1: Antiquarian and Genealogical Epic (2017).
Contributors are: Justin Arft, Jonathan S. Burgess, Joel P. Christensen, Jonathan L. Ready, Benjamin Sammons, Kevin Solez
Jonathan L. Ready, Ph. D. (2004), University of California, Berkeley, is a Professor of Classics at Indiana University. His most recent monograph is Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts (2019).
Christos C. Tsagalis, Ph. D. (1998), Cornell University, is a Professor Greek at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His most recent monograph is Early Greek Epic Fragments 1: Antiquarian and Genealogical Epic (2017).
Contributors are: Justin Arft, Jonathan S. Burgess, Joel P. Christensen, Jonathan L. Ready, Benjamin Sammons, Kevin Solez
"In sum, then, this volume offers a range of novel perspectives on archaic Greek epic, with many rewarding contributions. The individual articles cohere remarkably well, with a number of explicit cross-references between them, and the whole is well edited despite the occasional lingering typo.[4] Traditionally, the Iliad has received the bulk of scholarly attention in Homero-cyclic studies, but this collection highlights the riches still to be gained by exploring these issues through the lens of the Odyssey. Burgess should be heartily congratulated for pioneering this project, which will no doubt inspire further research into the shadowy connections between the epics of Homer and the Cycle." Thomas J. Nelson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.03.32.
Preface
Introduction âJonathan S. Burgess
The Space of the Epigone in Early Greek Epic âBenjamin Sammons
Traveling with Helen: The Itineraries of Paris and Menelaus as Narrative Doublets âKevin Solez
Revising Athenaâs Rage: Cassandra and the Homeric Appropriation of Nostos âJoel P. Christensen
Odysseus and the Suitorsâ Relatives âJonathan L. Ready
The Corpse of Odysseus âJonathan S. Burgess
AgnoÄsis and the Death of Odysseus in the Odyssey and the Telegony âJustin Arft
Introduction âJonathan S. Burgess
The Space of the Epigone in Early Greek Epic âBenjamin Sammons
Traveling with Helen: The Itineraries of Paris and Menelaus as Narrative Doublets âKevin Solez
Revising Athenaâs Rage: Cassandra and the Homeric Appropriation of Nostos âJoel P. Christensen
Odysseus and the Suitorsâ Relatives âJonathan L. Ready
The Corpse of Odysseus âJonathan S. Burgess
AgnoÄsis and the Death of Odysseus in the Odyssey and the Telegony âJustin Arft
This collection of articles will be of interest to academic libraries, specialists in Homeric studies and ancient Greco-Roman literature, and students (graduate and undergraduate) interested in myth, literature, and the ancient world.