Future fame in the Iliad : epic time and Homeric studies
Yukai Li
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
| Omfang | ix, 226 sider
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| Opplysninger | "When Homeric heroes think about the meaning of their actions, they expect this to take the form of kleos, 'fame', in a future song. This volume explores the consequences of this mode of thinking in the Iliad in particular, and argues that the form of kleos and the interposition of a gap of time between event and meaning produces widespread effects, not only for the thought and psyche of the heroes, but also for the nature of poetry and scholarship in the Homeric tradition. The epics are read as machines for perpetuating the fame of the heroes, as well as their own cultural authority. In contrast, Yukai Li suggests that instead of guaranteeing the continuity of the heroes' fame and the self-identity of the epic poem, the fact that fame is projected into a future song produces in the Homeric poems an essential preoccupation with the impossibility of continuity, memorial and self-identity. What appears is a specific form of time in which the present is divided by its future meaning, and the tensions that result connect the Homeric heroes to the poets who sing of them, and to the scholars who write about those songs"--
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| ISBN | 9781350239197
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