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  • 9 - Social Memory and Epic Composition

  • from Part III - History, Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry
  • Michael B. Cosmopoulos, University of Missouri, St. Louis
  • Book:
    The World of Homer
    Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    19 June 2025, pp 251-268

  • Summary

    Investigates how social memory and composition-in-performance contributed to the formation of the epics, culminating in a nuanced understanding of the processes that led to the emergence of the Homeric epics.

  • 5 - Economy

  • from Part II - The World of Homer
  • Michael B. Cosmopoulos, University of Missouri, St. Louis
  • Book:
    The World of Homer
    Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    19 June 2025, pp 171-188

  • Summary

    Reviews the economic dimensions of the Homeric world, examining the agropastoral practices, industry, and trade depicted in the epics. Archaeological evidence is used to contextualize these activities, revealing their role in the broader socioeconomic framework of the Mycenaean and Early Iron Age societies.

  • Introduction

  • Michael B. Cosmopoulos, University of Missouri, St. Louis
  • Book:
    The World of Homer
    Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    19 June 2025, pp 1-4

  • Summary

    The field of Homeric studies is vast, marked by heated debates and unresolved issues. One of the most contentious issues is the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Some of the pieces of this puzzle relate to the identity of the creator(s) of the poems and the place and date of composition. Others pertain to the ways in which the Homeric epics are connected with oral tradition, literacy, and other early Greek epics. And other pieces concern the degree to which the epic portrayal of objects, sociopolitical norms, economic activities, religious beliefs, and geography reflect historical realities.

  • 4 - Political Geography

  • from Part II - The World of Homer
  • Michael B. Cosmopoulos, University of Missouri, St. Louis
  • Book:
    The World of Homer
    Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    19 June 2025, pp 92-170

  • Summary

    Analyzes the geographical descriptions in the Homeric epics, correlating them with archaeological sites from the Mycenaean period and the Early Iron Age. It explores the connections between the literary landscape and historical topography, offering insights into the geographical accuracy and symbolic significance of the epics.

  • Epilogue: Forging Exile

  • from Part II - Becoming the Exile
  • Rebecca Menmuir, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile
    Published online:
    27 May 2025
    Print publication:
    12 June 2025, pp 210-221

  • Summary

    The Epilogue draws together the various threads of the book by evaluating the pseudo-Ovidian De vetula, a thirteenth-century forgery of Ovid which claims to be written by Ovid in exile. The Epilogue asks whether, in the light of this book’s previous chapters, De vetula constitutes an ‘authentically exilic Ovid’. Menmuir shows that Ovidian exile facilitates the forgery of De vetula, underpinning its very existence and authenticating an array of blatantly medieval features as genuinely Ovidian. However, having used Ovid’s exile and his exile poetry as a springboard, the poem subsequently departs from Ovid in exile, framing the Ovid of the last book of the poem as a thirteenth-century scholar and a budding Christian to boot. Each chapter of the book is relevant to this fraudulent Ovidian transformation. De vetula is framed as the first response to both Ovid’s exile and his exile poetry, fictitiously bridging the gap between Ovid’s responses (discussed in Chapter 1) and the scholarly and literary responses covered in Chapters 2 and 3. As a forgery of Ovidian exile, the author ‘becomes the exile’ but pushes the second part of this book to extremes by replacing the genuine Ovid’s exilic poetry and life.

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