A Shortened Version of 'The Songs of Homer'
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'I have nothing but admiration for the clarity of Mr Kirk's exposition and the tact with which he avoids the chatter of popularization on the one hand and the jargon of technical scholarship on the other. He is that rarest of birds in contemporary classical studies: a good teacher ... It is something of an accomplishment to combine archaeological exposition, linguistics, literary criticism and aesthetics in an extended, vivid, speculative argumentation. It is superb teaching.' Dudley Fitts, American Scholar
Preface; Part I. The Oral Epic: 1. The Homeric poems are oral; 2. Homer and modern oral poetry; Part II. The Historical Background: 3. The rise of Mycenae; 4. Life in a Late Bronze Age palace-state; 5. From the Achaean decline to the time of Homer; Part III. The Prehistory of the Homeric Tradition: 6. Poetical possibilities of the Dark Age; 7. Was there Achaean epic poetry?; 8. Dark Age elements and Aeolic elements; Part IV. The Iliad and Odyssey as Monumental Poems: 9. Some basic qualities; 10. The Iliad; 11. The Odyssey; Part V. The Style, Language and Material Background of the Iliad and Odyssey: 12. Subjects and styles; 13. The criterion of language; 14. Differences of material culture; Part VI. Diversity and Unity in the Large-Scale Plot: 15. Structural difficulties in the Iliad; 16. Structural difficulties in the Odyssey; 17. Unity, real and imaginary; Part VII. How the Poems Developed: 18. The circumstances of monumental composition; 19. Two crucial phases of transmission; 20. The process of development; References; Index.