III.2 (a) : EARLY GREEK HEXAMETER POETRY
1.
Text
Odyssey: Allen, OCT vols 3-4.
Hesiod, Works and Days: Solmsen, OCT.
Homeric Hymns: : Allen, OCT vol. 5.
2.
Translations
Odyssey: (verse) R. Lattimore (Harper Row, 1963); (prose) W.Shewring
(Oxford World’s Classics, 1980).
Hesiod: (verse) R. Lattimore (Ann Arbor, 1959, repr. 1991); (prose) M.
L.West (Oxford World’s Classics, 1988); G. W. Most (Loeb, 2006: vol. 1).
Homeric Hymns: (verse) M. Crudden (Oxford World’s Classics, 2001);
(prose) M. L. West, Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer (Loeb,
2003).
Fragments of the Epic Cycle: M. L. West, Greek Epic Fragments: from the
seventh to the fifth centuries BC (Loeb, 2003)
3.
Commentaries
Odyssey.
(On whole poem, in three vols, OUP): (bks 1-8) A. Heubeck, S.
R. West, J. B. Hainsworth (Oxford, 1988); (bks 9-16) A. Heubeck, A. Hoekstra
(Oxford, 1989); (bks 17-24) J. Russo, M. Fernandez-Galiano, A. Heubeck (Oxford,
1992).
(Select books only, CUP ‘green and yellow’ series): A. F.Garvie,
Odyssey VI-VIII (Cambridge, 1994); R. B. Rutherford, Odyssey XIX and XX
(Cambridge, 1992). (On whole poem in translation, BCP): P. Jones, Homer’s
Odyssey. A Commentary based on the English Translation of Richmond Lattimore
(Bristol, 1992, and reprinted).
See also I. de Jong (under 4. below).
Hesiod.
(On whole poems:) M. L.West, Hesiod: Theogony (Oxford,
1966); M. L.West, Hesiod: Works and Days (Oxford, 1978).
(Selections:) C.
J.Rowe, Essential Hesiod (Bristol, 1988); W. J. Verdenius, a Commentary on Hesiod
Works and Days, vv. 1-382 (Brill, 1985).
Homeric Hymns.
(On all the hymns): Allen and Halliday, The Homeric
Hymns (Oxford, 1936); (in Italian): F. Cassola, Inni Omerici (Rome, 1975); G.
Zanetto, Inni Omerici (Milan, 1996).
(On specific hymns): N. J. Richardson,
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Oxford, 1974); H. P. Foley, The Homeric Hymn to
Demeter (Princeton), Part 1; A. Faulkner, The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (Oxford,
2008).
Fragments of the Epic Cycle: no commentary exists, but cf. M. Davies (under
4. below).
4.
Books
(a) General
H. Fränkel, Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy (Oxford, 1975) pp. 6-131,
246-252
R. B. Rutherford, Homer (Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics,
Oxford, 1996)
I. Morris and B. Powell (eds.), A New Companion to Homer (Leiden, New
York, Cologne, 1997)
R. Fowler (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Homer (Cambridge, 2004).
(b) Collections of essays
C. Emlyn Jones, L. Hardwick, and J. Purkis (eds.), Homer: Readings and
Images (London, 1992)
I. McAuslan and P. Walcot (eds.), Homer (Greece and Rome Studies, Oxford,
1998)
G. M. Wright and P. V. Jones (eds.), Homer: German Scholarship in
translation (Oxford, 1997)
D. Cairns (ed.), Oxford Readings in Homer’s Iliad (Oxford, 2001)
S. Schein (ed.), Reading the Odyssey. Selected Interpretative Essays
(Princeton, 1996)
H. P. Foley (ed.) [see under 3.], Part 3.
(c) Odyssey
B. Fenik, Studies in the Odyssey (Wiesbaden, 1974)
J. Griffin, Homer: the Odyssey (Cambridge, 1987)
I. de Jong, A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey (Cambridge, 2001)
S. D. Olson, Blood and Iron. Stories and Storytelling in Homer’s Odyssey
(Leiden, New York, and Cologne, 1995)
D. L. Page, The Homeric Odyssey (Cambridge, 1955)
D. L. Page, Folktales in Homer’s Odyssey (Cambridge, Mass., 1973).
(d) Hesiod
R. Lamberton, Hesiod (Yale, 1988)
R. Hamilton, The Architecture of Hesiodic Poetry (Baltimore, 1989)
J. S. Clay, Hesiod’s Cosmos (Cambridge, 2003)
A. T. Edwards, Hesiod's Ascra (Berkeley, 2004)
K. Stoddard, The Narrative Voice in the Theogony of Hesiod (Leiden, 2004).
(e) Homeric Hymns
C. A.. Sowa, Traditional Themes and the Homeric Hymns (Chicago, 1984).
J. S. Clay, The Politics of Olympus. Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric
Hymns (Princeton, 1989)
H. P. Foley (ed.) [see under 3.], esp. Part 2.
(f) Epic Cycle
G. L. Huxley, Greek Epic Poetry (London, 1969)
M. Davies, The Epic Cycle (Bristol, 1989)
J. S. Burgess, The Tradition of the Trojan War and the Epic Cycle (Baltimore
and London, 2001).
(g) Archaic reception of Homer
A. Snodgrass, Homer and the Artists: text and picture in early Greek art
(Cambridge, 1998)
B. Graziosi, Inventing Homer: The early reception of the epic (Cambridge,
2002).
(h) Oral-formulaic theory and related issues
G. P. Edwards, The Language of Hesiod in its Traditional Context (Oxford,
1971)
R. Janko, Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns (Cambridge, 1982)
J. M. Foley, The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology
(Bloomington, 1988)
A. B. Lord, Epic Singers and Oral Tradition (Cornell, 1991)
M. Skafte Jensen, The Homeric Question and the Oral Formulaic Theory
(Copenhagen, 1980)
R. Finnegan, Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance, and Social Context
(Cambridge, 1977).
(i) Early Greek hexameter poetry and the Near East
M. L. West, The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry
(Oxford, 1997).
5.
Articles
(a) Odyssey
W. Burkert, ‘The Song of Ares and Aphrodite: On the Relationship between
the Odyssey and the Iliad’, in Wright and Jones (eds.), 249-62
C. Emlyn Jones, ‘True and lying tales in the Odyssey’, in McAuslan and
Walcot (eds.), 144-54
C. Emlyn-Jones, ‘The Reunion of Penelope and Odysseus’, in McAuslan and
Walcot (eds), 126-43
I. de Jong, ‘The Subjective Style in Odysseus’ Wanderings’, CQ 42 (1992), 111
R. B. Rutherford, ‘The Philosophy of the Odyssey’, JHS 106 (1986), 145-62
R. B. Rutherford, ‘At Home and Abroad: Aspects of the Odyssey’, PCPS 31
(1985) 133-50
R. B. Rutherford, ‘From the Iliad to the Odyssey’, BICS 38 (1991-3), 47-54
[repr. in D. Cairns (ed.), 117-46]
S. R. West, ‘Laertes Revisited’, PCPS 35 (1989), 113-43.
(b) Hesiod
M. Griffith, ‘Personality in Hesiod’, CA 2 (1983), 37-65
M. Heath, ‘Hesiod’s Didactic Poetry’, CQ 35 (1985), 245-63
P. Millett, ‘Hesiod and his World’, PCPS 30 (1984), 84-115
C. J. Rowe, ‘Archaic Thought in Hesiod’, JHS 103 (1983), 124-35
A. Lardinois, ‘How the Days Fit the Works in Hesiod’s Works and Days’,
AJPh 119 (1998), 319-36.
(c) Homeric Hymns
J. S. Clay, ‘The Homeric Hymns’, in Morris and Powell (eds.) [see 4. (a)], pp.
489-507.
W. Burkert, ‘Kynaithos, Polycrates and the Homeric hymn to Apollo’, in
Arktouros: Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M.W.Knox (Berlin, 1979), 53-62
[repr. in W. Burkert, Kleine Schriften vol. 1 (Göttingen, 2001), 189-97]
R. Janko, ‘The Structure of the Homeric hymns’, Hermes 109 (1981), 9-24
R. Parker, ‘The Hymn to Demeter and the Homeric hymns’, G & R 38 (1991),
1-17
M. L. West, ‘Cynaethus’ Hymn to Apollo’, CQ 25 (1975), 161-70.
(d) Epic Cycle
J. Griffin, ‘The Epic Cycle and the Uniqueness of Homer’, JHS 97 (1977), 3953 [repr. in D. Cairns (ed.), 365-384]
K. Dowden, ‘Homer’s Sense of Text’, JHS 116 (1996), 47-61
M. L. West, ‘Iliad and Aethiopis’, CQ 53 (2003), 1-14
(e) Reception of Homer in the Archaic period
W. Burkert, ‘The Making of Homer in the 6th Century B.C.: Rhapsodes versus
Stesichorus’, in: Papers on the Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu) 43-62 [repr. in
D. Cairns (ed.), 92-116]
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