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Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic interprets both of Homer's epics as demonstrating a sense of "the Tragic." While this view of human experience and society is customarily linked with Greek tragedy rather than epic, Rinon uses close readings of the texts to argue persuasively that both The Iliad and The Odyssey present a view of pathos interwoven with the knowledge that it is unavoidable and inexplicable.
Using Aristotle's Poetics as a guide toward defining eutuchia and dystuchia, Rinon analyzes specific sections of the epics. He touches on the Cyclops episode and its use of Bakhtinian "heteroglossia," on the use of Hephaestus' creativity in both epics in the emergence of tragic signification, and on Demodocus' songs in book 8 of The Odyssey as seen through André Gide's mise en abîme. Other detailed readings look at individual themes and characters in the poems, including the image of the dog, the speeches in the ninth book of The Iliad, and numerous minor characters.
Yoav Rinon's integration of classical philology, narratology, and post-colonial studies makes Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic a widely interdisciplinary book, one that will appeal to both specialists and undergraduates in comparative literature, philosophy, and classical studies.
Yoav Rinon is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of General and Comparative Literature and the Department of Classics at The Hebrew University. His previous books include Sadian Reflections (2005) and Aristotle's Poetics: Translation, Notes and Commentary (in Hebrew, 2003).
Cover credit: La Fragua de Vulcano, courtesy of Museo Nacional del Prado, Spain
"Rinon is a subtle and eloquent reader of Homer, capable of opening fresh perspectives on even some of the most familiar passages of the two epics."
—-Stephen Halliwell, Professor of Greek, University of St. Andrews
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reviewed Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic on September 09, 2019
Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic
This introduction to Latin literature will be especially useful to undergraduates coming to the Latin classics (whether in the original or translation) for the first time. The book's chief merit is the manner in which it sets various works of Latin literature in their cultural context, revealing how products of Latin literature, while often being modeled on Greek literary antecedents, are uniquely reflective of the values and ideals of the Romans.
The author also deals with the manner in which certain famous Latin stories are handled in later traditions (e.g., her discussion of Renaissance paintings depicting the rape of Lucretia, a story in Book I of Livy's history). A whole book could be written on the influence of Ovid's Metamorphoses on later (Renaissance) painters.
Also addressed in various places are important critical issues that have occupied scholars of Latin literature in more recent times.
This little volume contains the following chapters:
1. Virgil and the Meaning of the Aeneid
2. Role models for Roman women and men in Livy
3. What is Latin literature?
4. What does studying Latin literature involve?
5. Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity
6. Performance and spectacle, life and death
7. Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons
8. Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery
9. Writing 'real' lives
10. Introspection and individual identity
11. Literary texture and intertextuality
12.Metapoetics
13. Allegory
14. Overcoming an inferiority complex: the relationship with Greek literature
15. Building Rome and Building Roman literature
Appendix A
Extract From Darkness Visible by W.R. Johnson
Appendix B
Who's afraid of literary theory? by Simon Goldhill
List of Authors and Texts
Time-line
List of translations used / adapted
Index of Names and Topics
Index of Passages quoted.
In her chapter on the Aeneid, the author provides an excellent summary of the critical battle that scholars have waged for decades concerning Aeneas' killing of Turnus in Aeneid 12. Is this controversial climactic scene "pro-Augustan" or "anti-Augustan"? Braund musters the arguments for both sides, along with passages from other books of the poem, political considerations, and viewpoints from Roman philosophical school that are relevant to the discussion.
Each chapter concludes with a short section entitled "Further Reading and Study" in which she discusses recent scholarly articles and books that have opened new critical avenues.
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