The Iliad and The Odyssey + Homer and His Age
Deux épopées fondatrices et une plongée savante dans l’univers d’Homère : L’Iliade et L’Odyssée, suivies de l’essai Homer and His Age d’Andrew Lang.
The Iliad and the Odyssey are two epic poems written by Homer around the 9th century BC. They are two of the oldest recorded written works in history. The Iliad deals with a ten-year war between the Greeks and Trojans, called the Siege of Troy. It centers around Achilles, the great Greek hero who was dipped in the river Styx when he was young and whose only weak spot was his heel. He was killed when Apollo helped one of his enemies shoot an arrow into his heel.
The Odyssey is about Odysseus s voyage from the war back home to Ithaca, which took another 10 years.
Homer (around the 9th century BC) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds.
Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang was written in 1906. Lang was highly regarded as a Homeric scholar and Homer and His Age is one of the works he contributed to this area of study.
Table of contents:
Preface; The Homeric Age; Hypotheses as to the Growth of the Epics; Hypotheses of Epic Composition; Loose Feudalism: The Over-Lord in Iliad, Books I. and II.; Agamemnon in the Later Iliad; Archaeology of the Iliad. Burial and Cremation; Homeric Armour; The Breastplate; Bronze and Iron; The Homeric House; Notes of Change in the Odyssey; Linguistic Proofs of Various Dates; The Doloneia; The Interpolations of Nestor; The Comparative Study of Early Epics; Homer and the French Mediaeval Epics; Conclusion.
Andrew Lang (1844 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. While best known for his translations of classical literature and as a collector of folk and fairy tales, Lang also wrote poetry, biographies, histories, novels, literary criticisms and even children's books.
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Ce livre réunit deux voix majeures de l’étude et de la transmission des épopées homériques : Homère, poète légendaire dont les œuvres ont posé les bases de la littérature occidentale, et Andrew Lang, érudit écossais dont les traductions et essais ont marqué l’homérisme moderne. Ensemble, ils offrent une lecture à la fois poétique et savante, mêlant récit épique et analyse historique. Leur collaboration posthume, à travers ce volume, éclaire aussi bien le génie d’Homère que les débats sur sa vie et son époque.
Homer
Homère est traditionnellement considéré comme l’auteur de L’Iliade et L’Odyssée, deux piliers de la littérature grecque composée vers le VIIIᵉ siècle av. J.-C. Son identité réelle reste mystérieuse, mais son œuvre a défini les codes de l’épopée et inspiré des siècles de littérature. Les poèmes, transmis oralement avant d’être fixés par écrit, mêlent récits de guerre, aventures mythologiques et réflexions sur la condition humaine. Homère est souvent appelé « le Poète » par les Anciens, soulignant son statut fondateur.