Menelaus in the Archaic Period
Not Quite the Best of the Achaeans
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 August 2020
- ISBN 9780199685929
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 222x146x27 mm
- Weight 600 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 19 black-and-white illustrations 50
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Short description:
While there have been many studies devoted to the heroes of Homeric epic, the figure of Menelaus has remained notably overlooked. This volume is the first book-length study of the Homeric character, taking a multidisciplinary approach to his depiction in the archaic Greek world through detailed analysis of literary, visual, and material evidence.
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While there have been many studies devoted to the major heroes and heroines of Homeric epic, among them Achilles, Odysseus, and Helen, the figure of Menelaus has remained notably overlooked in this strand of scholarship. Menelaus in the Archaic Period is the first book-length study of the Homeric character, taking a multidisciplinary approach to his depiction in archaic Greek poetry, art, and cult through detailed analysis of ancient literary, visual, and material evidence.
The volume is divided into two parts, the first of which examines the portrayal of Menelaus in the Homeric poems as a unique 'personality' with an integral role to play in each narrative, as depicted through typical patterns of speech and action and through intertextual allusion. The second part explores his representation both in other poetry of the archaic period - including lyric poetry and Simonides' 'Plataea elegy ' - and also archaic art and local Sparta cult, drawing on the literary, archaeological, and inscriptional evidence for the cult of Menelaus with Helen at Therapne. The depiction of Menelaus in archaic art is a particular focal point: Chapter 4 provides a methodology for the interpretation of heroic narrative on archaic Greek vases through iconography and inscriptions and establishes his conventional visual 'identity' on black figure Athenian vases, while an annotated catalogue of images details those that fall outside the 'norm'. Menelaus emerges from this comprehensive study as a unique and likeable character whose relationship with Helen was a popular theme in both epic poetry and vase painting, but one whose portrayal evinced a significant narrative range, with an array of continuities and differences in how he was represented by the Greeks, not only within the archaic period but also in comparison to classical Athens.
...an engaging read with a well-researched and clearly written book.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Methods and Terms
The 'Homeric Question'
Orality, Traditional Referentiality, and Neoanalysis
Homeric Intertextuality and Methodologies of Allusion
Theories of Homeric Character Depiction
Overview of Part I: Homer
Overview of Part II: Votaries, Painters, and Poets
Part I. Homer
The Iliad
The Language of Menelaus
The Story of Menelaus
The Odyssey
Introduction: Menelaus Returned Home
Pylos
Sparta
Proteus and the Apotheosis of Menelaus
The Departure of Telemachus
Envoi
Part II. Votaries, Painters, and Poets
Why Menelaus? Alcman, Sappho, Stesichorus, [Hesiod], and the Cycle
Alcman
'Cyclic' Epic Fragments: Cypria
Little Iliad; Ilioupersis
Nostoi
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
Sappho frr. 16 17
Stesichorus: Helen, Palinode, Ilioupersis, Nostoi
Conclusion
Menelaus in Archaic Art
Introduction: Heroic Narrative in Archaic Art
Menelaus and Helen
Menelaus without Helen
Naming Menelaus a Hero in Archaic Art
The Cult of Menelaus and Helen at Therapne
Introduction
Literary Testimonia to the Cult of Menelaus
Material Evidence for the Cult of Menelaus and Helen at Therapne
Inscriptions and the Cult of Menelaus
Menelaus *E*uŕ*uβιης: Simonides and the End of the Story
Simonides' 'Plataea Elegy'
Conclusion: The End of the Story
Endmatter
Appendix: Menelaus Genealogy
