How to end an orally-derived epic poem by Kelly, A

An edition with commentary of the Batrachomyomachia by Hosty, M

“…This is followed by a detailed analysis of the poem’s style and metre, a brief tour of its <em>Nachleben</em> up to the 13th century, and a summary of the notoriously tangled manuscript tradition.…”

Homer and History: Iliad 9.381-4 by Kelly, A

“…A Mycenaean context is indicated by two factors: (1) the idea that wealth 'goes into' (πoτινíσεται, 9.381) a city fits well with Mycenaean economics, but is individual within the Homeric poems; (2) the history of the thirteenth century explains both the onomastic equation between Egyptian and Boiotian Thebes and the replacement of the latter by the former in the comparison.…”

Homeric hymn to Apollo: introduction and commentary on lines 1-178 by Bonnell, K

“…The large number of parallels with the Homeric poems are assessed and it is suggested that, while much of this material is probably traditional, a close relationship between HAp and these poems is possible at certain points.…”

Performance and rivalry: Homer, Odysseus and Hesiod by Kelly, A

“…Odysseus’ <em>précis</em> of his adventures to Penelope has been deemed (inter alia) unnecessary, cursory, selective, and even unique in summarizing his wanderings in <em>oratio obliqua</em>, for everywhere else those narratives are put into the mouth of the poem’s main character.2 Of these objections, the last is at least interesting, because it focuses on the poet’s decision to narrate Odysseus’ <em>précis</em> not in direct speech, but in his own, third-person voice. …”

With, or without, Homer: hearing the background in Sappho by Kelly, A

“…In practical terms, this leads them to construct the literary history of the Archaic period around the central pillars of the Homeric poems, and then to link those texts with every other, in a story of development and literary influence familiar from later stages of antiquity. …”

Homer's Rivals? Internal Narrators in the Iliad by Kelly, A

“…Homer’s authority is everywhere in the ancient world; from biography to history, art and literature, yet the two poems which have come down to us under his name tell us nothing about their author. …”

Divine assemblies in early Greek and Mesopotamian narrative poetry by Petrella, B

“…Part 1 (Chapters 1-4) examines Sumerian narrative poems, and the Akkadian narratives Atra-ḫasīs, Anzû, Enūma eliš, Erra and Išum and the Epic of Gilgameš. …”

Panhellenism and local tradition in early Greek epos by Webber, JM

“…<p>Early Greek epos encompasses a wide range of characters who are each given a local origin: for example, Akhilleus of Phthia, Helen of Sparta, Nestor of Pylos. The surviving poems of the epic tradition, however, do not focus on single locations, but strikingly combine characters and places from all across the Greek-speaking world and beyond, a feature often referred to as 'Panhellenism'.…”

Stesikhoros and Helen by Kelly, A

“…The famous story of Stesikhoros’ encounter with Helen can be explained as a biographical derivation from the structure itself of a single ‘hymnodic’ poem composed in honour of that figure. Known in antiquity as either the <em>Helen</em> or the <em>Palinode</em>, this poem employed a <em>persona</em> narrative (probably) in its first section, and it did so principally in order to establish Stesikhoros’ authority against the background of Homeric and Hesiodic treatments. …”

Ilias parva by Kelly, A

“…Though it is the one of the best attested members of the ‘Epic Cycle’, and the only poem of that group to have taken its title from one of the Homeric epics, the Ilias parva illustrates how difficult it is to reconstruct, let alone understand, the history of Greek epic poetry after Homer.…”

Scottish Chaucerianism in older Scots literature, c.1424-1513: a re-evaluation by Kelly, A

“…</p> <p>Chapter 2 focuses on the mid-fifteenth-century poem, Richard Holland’s (d. in or after 1483) <em>Buke of the Howlat</em> (c.1448), which engages simultaneously with the <em>Parliament of Fowls</em> (c.1380-82) and <em>The House of Fame</em> (c.1375) as well as with the later fourteenth-century Scots poem John Barbour’s <em>Bruce</em> (c.1375). …”

Epic and lyric by Kelly, A

“…Connection between summer and wine drinking is traditional in early poetry, and Hesiod's consumption is in keeping with his poem's moderation and restraint, while the Alcaean refraction isolates and puts the drinking first, and in exuberant terms somewhat removed from the well-instructed farmer seasonally resting from his toils.…”

Hellenistic Arming in the Batrakhomyomakhia by Kelly, A

“…Usually considered an example of παρωιδία, the poem is a unique example of that genre in several respects, including the extent to which it develops its own formularity rather than merely mirroring the Homeric exemplar with minimal change, and the fact that it was passed off as the work of Homer himself instead of being self-consciously distanced from the parodied author. …”

Achilles in control? by Kelly, A

“…This ‘intermediate’ status has caused its own difficulties, and so the games tend to be one of the more understudied and/or oversimplified parts of the poem, either a ‘happy interlude’ to provide a final ‘curtain-call’ for its major figures, or a dark story which shows only the inability of the characters to change or avoid conflict over timê. …”

The path of song by Kelly, A

“…<p><em>The Path of Song: Semantic Strategies in Iliad VIII</em> is a continuous commentary to Book VIII of the Iliad, applying to this section of the poem a new aesthetic methodology developed primarily by the comparative scholar J. …”