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In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural contexts; and from Athenian pot paintings to twelfth-century German scholarship, they engage with a range of different media and genres.
Inspired by the dialogues inherent in the process of reception, the book adopts a dialogic structure. In each chapter, paired essays by Haywood and Mac Sweeney offer contrasting authorial voices addressing a single theme, thereby drawing out connections and dissonances between a diverse suite of classical and post-classical Iliadic receptions.
The resulting book offers new insights, both into individual instances of Iliadic reception in particular historical contexts, but also into the workings of a complex story tradition. The centrality of the Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition is shown to be a function of conscious engagement not only with Iliadic content, but also with Iliadic status and the iconic idea of the Homeric.
Contents
List of Figures
Note from the Authors
Introduction: Dialogue
Chapter 1: Navigating Tradition
1.1:The Iliad's Poets - Haywood
1.2: The Erra's Poems - Mac Sweeney
Chapter 2: Visulaising Society
2.1: Euthymides' Pioneer Politics - Mac Sweeney
2.2: Rossetti's Vulnerable Firebrand - Haywood
Chapter 3: Staging Conflict
3.1: Euripides' New Contests - Haywood
3.2: Shakespeare's Empty Arguments - Mac Sweeney
Chapter 4: Seeking Truth
4.1: Herodotus' Trojan Truths - Haywood
4.2: Schliemann's Physical Proofs - Mac Sweeney
Chapter 5: Claiming Identities
5.1: Godfrey's Hall of Mirrors - Mac Sweeney
5.2: Petersen's Hall of Fame - Haywood
Conclusion: Memorial
References
Index
