G S Kirk - The Songs of Homer (), Angielskie [EN](1)
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THE
SONGS OF
HOMER
BY
G. S. KIRK, F.B.A.
Reader in Greek in the Universiy of Cambridge
and Fellow of Triniy Hall
CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1962
To
D. L. PAGE
and
M. I. FINLEY
CONTENTS
pages
x-xi
Maps
page
xiii
Prface
PART I
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF
THE HOMERIC POEMS
3
The rise of Mycenae
The Linear B tablets and life in a late Mycenaean
palace-state
2
23
From the Mycenaean decline to the time of Homer
3
40
PART 11
THE ORAL POET AND HIS METHODS
4
Introductory, p.
55; § I,
Heroic Age and heroic
poetry,
p. 56; §
2, The language of fo rmulas in
Homer,
p. 59; §
3, The oral tradition and the
advent of writing,
p.
68 ;
§4,
The oral poet's use
of established themes,
p.
72;
§ 5,
Oriinality and
the fo rmular method,
p. 80; §
6, The comparative
study of the oral epic in Yugoslavia,
p.
83 ;
§
7, The life-cycle of an
oral tradition,
p. 95;
§
8, Oral dictated texts, p.
98
55
PART III
THE GROWTH OF THE ORAL EPIC IN GREECE
5
The evidence fo r Mycenaean epic
105
6
The poetical possibilities of the Dark Age
126
7
Dark Age elements and Aeolic elements
139
vu
CONTENTS
PART IV
PLURALITY AND UNITY IN HOMER
8
Subjects and styles
page 159
179
9
The cultural and linguistic amalgam
§
I,
The archaeological criterion, p. 179;
§2, The criterion of language, p. 192
10 Structural anomalies in the Iliad
I I
Structural anomalies in the Odyssey
12 The overriding unity
2II
253
PART V
THE DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSMISSION
OF THE GREAT POEMS
13 The circumstances of Homeric composition
271
§
I,
'Homer' and his region, p. 271 ; §
2,
Audiences
and occasions, p. 274; §3, The date of the poems,
p. 282 ; §4, The relationship of the Iliad and
Odyssey, p. 288
14
The crucial phases of transmission
301
15
Stages ofdevelopment
316
PART VI
THE SONGS AND THEIR QUALITIES
337
16 The Iliad
355
17 The Odyssey
18 Man, fa te and action : some special qualities of the
Homeric poems
372
Notes
38
7
Plates
Index f Passages
General Index
between pages 406 and 409
page 409
412
1
MAPS AND PLATES
The maps are printed on pp.
x
and
i.
The
plates are
bound in
as a section between
pp.
406 and 409.
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