By Douglas Cairns, Ruth Scodel
The 'Classic' narratology that has been broadly utilized to classical texts is geared toward a common taxonomy for describing narratives. extra lately, 'new narratologies' have all started linking the formal features of narrative to their old and ideological contexts. This quantity seeks one of these rethinking for Greek literature. It has heavily comparable targets: to outline what's frequently Greek in Greek narratives of other classes and genres, and to determine how narrative options and issues boost over time.
The 15 individual members discover questions corresponding to: How is Homeric epic like and in contrast to Gilgamesh and the Hebrew Bible? What do Greek historians constantly fail to inform us, having realized from the culture what to disregard? How does lyric alter narrative ideas from different genres?
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Il. 177; cf. Scodel 1998b: 49–50. homeric battle narrative and the ancient near east 35 Though Serge Frolov and Allen Wright have recently cast great doubt on the frequency and depth of contacts between Greeks and Jews during this period,23 let us allow the hypothesis, since it is certainly more likely than a direct interaction thesis. Once more, however, we are immediately faced with the problem that the motif of the ‘discouragement test’ is found only in these two places in the Hebrew Bible and nowhere else – as far as I know – in ANE literatures.
M. L. West 2011: 103 takes this as grounds for thinking the Diapeira an intrusion into an earlier version (cf. above, n. 15) because it adumbrates the unfulfilled involvement of others, but their failure to get involved is surely deliberate, and an important index of Agamemnon’s rather troubled authority within the camp, not a hint of an earlier layer of composition which has been inadequately concealed; cf. also below, n. 34. 33 In any case, we have indeed reached a very strange pass if we think that Homer was only able to reproduce the precisely paralleled elements in his poetic inheritance, and never to recombine them in new ways.
E. of a parallel], what is at stake? . 3 The current chapter takes up that challenge, and suggests that ANE texts should not be treated as direct source material for the Iliad and Odyssey. Classicists should not ignore this material, of course, but we must move beyond the methodologically naive I should like to thank Bill Allan, Sophie Gibson, Chris Minkwoski, Richard Rutherford and Christopher Metcalf for their help with this chapter and its material; Douglas Cairns, Ruth Scodel and the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh for arranging this volume and the conference at which it was presented; and Peter Kruschwitz, Ian Rutherford and the Department of Classics at the University of Reading for a first, and very generous, hearing.