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Christos Tsagalis
This volume is a full-scale edition with commentary on the archaic epic poems Herakleia by Panyassis of Halikarnassos and the Theseis. It offers extensive introductions to the biography of Panyassis…
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Heracles in Early Greek Epic examines Heracles in Homeric and Hesiodic poetry, as well as in fragmentary epic poems such as Creophylus' Oichalias Halosis, Pisander's Heracleia, and Panyassis' Heracleia.
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Christos C. Tsagalis
The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity being doubted since antiquity. But by applying sophisticated interpretive tools, this book maintains that Iliad 10 was not…
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This study of the gooi or personal laments in Homer’s Iliad once and for all articulates the poetic techniques regulating this type of speech.
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Fourth-century Attic grave epigrams reflect a transitional phase in the evolution of the genre of epigram. This book explores this decisive phase in the evolution of the epigram by reconstructing…
This is the first full-scale commentary on the extant fragments of genealogical and antiquarian epic of the archaic period since G. It includes introduction to the relevant authors and poems…
This volume is a full-scale edition with commentary of the archaic epic poems Oichalias Halosis by Kreophylos of Samos and Herakleia by Peisandros of Kamiros. It offers extensive introductions to…
?his book includes 20 articles and chapters on Homer, Hesiod, the Epic Cycle, and the performance of epic. The main topics are Homer's diction, meter, word-localization, textual issues, motif-transference, and…
Tsagalis argues that just as the discarded text of a palimpsest still carries traces of its previous writing, so the Homeric tradition unfolds its awareness of alternate versions as it…
Exploring the functions of space in the Iliad, Christos Tsagalis shows how active spatial representation in similes and descriptive passages influences characterization and narrative action. He also analyzes Homeric modes…
This volume brings together a series of studies on the Hesiodic corpus. Its first part deals with generic questions as well as contextual factors pertaining to the understanding of Hesiodic…
This inaugural volume of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic (YAGE) comprises eight articles: seven are on Homeric poetry, six of which address the theme of the epic middle…
Volume 2 of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic presents seven innovative articles on a diverse array of subjects. It will be of interest to all students and scholars of…
Volume 4 of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic presents six innovative articles on a diverse array of subjects. It will be of interest to all students and scholars of…
Examines how a range of ancient texts in different genres were able to assert their authority and claims to truth, often alluding to one another in subtle ways as they…
This volume ranges from Homeric epic to Apollonius’s Argonautica. Well-known episodes receive innovative new interpretations, and hitherto overlooked items receive the attention they deserve.
This sixth volume of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic comprises five articles, each of which explores issues of perennial concern in the field of archaic Greek epic.
This volume brings together cutting-edge research from a cohort of acclaimed scholars on Homer and the Homeric Hymns. The relevant studies deal with textual issues, language and interpretation of obscure…
The poems of the Epic Cycle, although surviving only as fragments, are crucial for understanding the development of the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of Greek mythology more…
Volume 3 of Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic explores interconnections between the Odyssey and the Nostoi and the Telegony of the Epic Cycle. Topics include pre-Homeric myth, intertextuality between orally…
This volume addresses questionsconcerning Neoanalysis and Oral theory, the two most fruitful schools of thought in Homeric criticism. It explores the development of Greek myth with respect to the Trojan…
