Généalogies épiques

Les fonctions de la parenté et les femmes ancêtres dans la poésie épique grecque archaïque

von Irini Kyriakou

363 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book proposes to rethink kinship in early Greek epic poetry, and argues that the depiction of parenthood as a poetic practice in epic poetry is socially motivated. Thus, the discursive form and the narrative function of genealogical relations are studied within the poetic context that encompasses them and according to the criterion of gender in order to interpret the references to the female and/or masculine ancestors in the
Iliad
, the
Odyssey
, the
Theogony
, the
Catalogue of Women
and the
Homeric Hymns
.

Furthermore, this book makes an important step towards a female-centered catalogic poetics. Through the study of the analytic female-centered catalogues attested in archaic Greek epic poetry, this book highlights the hypothesis of the existence of a female-centered poetic tradition that sang the
klea gynaikôn
in terms of kinship and procreation.

Within a reception perspective that expands beyond classical disciplines, the study of the function of kinship in early Greek epic poetry touches on anthropological, literary and historical subjects that fall within several disciplinary fields such as ancient history, anthropology of kinship, women's history and gender studies.

• Reihe: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte
• ISBN: 9783110653151
• Sprache: Französisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.11.2019
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Klassische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
• Verlag: De Gruyter