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Homer and the Heroic Tradition
Originally published by Harvard University Press in 1958.
The Heroic Paradox
The late Cedric H. Whitman was widely acclaimed for his studies of classical poetry. In the ten years before his death in 1979 he gave a number of lectures in which he developed his concept of Greek heroic humanism. Five of the six essays collected here are edited from the texts of those lectures. According to Whitman, the tragic hero in Greek literature confronts crucial moral questions and chooses to suffer and die rather than to submit or conform to answers dictated by religious dogmatism. Whitman's first two essays explore this idea in a discussion of the "Iliad", Aeschylus, and Sophocles. The next two essays study the poetic artistry of the "Iliad" in terms of the techniques of oral narrative, the symbolism of Homer, and the character of Achilles. Sophocles' "Antigone" is the subject of another essay in which Whitman focuses on the conjunction of the divine will, the natural world, and the heroism of Antigone herself. The final essay restores Aristophanes to his rightful place as a poet of the city. -- From publisher's description.
Sophocles
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Owls to Athens
In this seventieth-birthday tribute to renowned Greek scholar Sir Kenneth Dover, a diverse group of his former pupils and colleagues contribute a selection of essays, on topics ranging from drama and poetry to history, society, art, language, metre, rhythm, texts, and scholars. The contributors include Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, D.A. Russell, R.G.M. Nisbet, D.M. Lewis, A. Andrews, I. Kidd, M.L. West, and D.M. MacDowell, among others.
Oedipus Tyrannus
The text is accompanied by a wealth of carefully chosen backgroundmaterials and essays. "Passages from Ancient Authors" includes selections from Homer's Odyssey,Thucydides' account of the plague, and Euripedes' Phoenissae. The best of ancient and modern criticism is represented, encouragingdiscussion from psychological, religious, anthropological, dramatic,and literary perspectives. Under the heading "Religion and Psychology" are included writings on theOedipus myth by Martin P. Nilsson, Meyer Fortes, Gordon M. Kirkwood,Thalia Phillies Feldman, and Sigmund Freud. The authors of the selections in "Criticism" are Aristotle, C. M. Bowra,R. C. Jebb, S. M. Adams, A. J. A. Waldock, Albin Lesky, Werner Jaeger,Friedrich Nietzsche, John Jones, D. W. Lucas, Bernard M. W. Knox,Cedric H. Whitman, Richmond Lattimore, Robert Cohen, Francis Fergusson,and H. D. F. Kitto. The special question of Oedipus's guilt or innocence is addressed inessays by J. T. Sheppard, Laszlo Versenyi, P. H. Vellacott, E. R.Dodds, Thomas Gould, and Philip Wheelwright.
The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey
The archaic context of vengeance -- Vengeance in the Odyssey: tisis as narrative -- Three narratives of divine vengeance -- Odysseus' terrifying revenge -- The multiple meanings of Odysseus' triumphs -- The end of the Odyssey.
Homer
Andrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what it is for. Focusing on the critical moment in Western literature when the heroic tales of the Greek oral tradition began to be preserved in writing, he examines these questions in the light of Homeric poetry. Through fresh readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and referring to other early epics as well, Ford deepens our understanding of what poetry was at a time before written texts, before a developed sense of authorship, and before the existence of institutionalized criticism. Placing what is known about Homer's art in the wider context of Homer...
The White Hotel
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