Epic and History (Ancient World)

Epic and History......Page 5
 Contents......Page 7
 List of Figures and Tables......Page 9
 Notes on Contributors......Page 10
 Series Editor's Preface......Page 16
 1 Introduction......Page 17
 2 Maybe Epic: The Origins and Reception of Sumerian Heroic Poetry......Page 23
 3 Historical Events and the Process of Their Transformation in Akkadian Heroic Traditions......Page 42
 4 Epic and History in Hittite Anatolia: In Search of a Local Hero......Page 67
 5 Manly Deeds: Hittite Admonitory History and Eastern Mediterranean Didactic Epic......Page 82
 6 Epic and History in the Hebrew Bible: Definitions, “Ethnic Genres,” and the Challenges of Cultural Identity in the Biblical Book of Judges......Page 102
 7 No Contest between Memory and Invention: The Invention of the Pandava Heroes of the Mahabharata......Page 119
 8 From "Imperishable Glory" to History: The Iliad and the Trojan War......Page 138
 9 Historical Narrative in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Elegy......Page 161
 10 Fact, Fiction, and Form in Early Roman Epic......Page 183
 11 The Song and the Sword: Silius' Punica and the Crisis of Early Imperial Epic......Page 201
 12 The Burden of Mortality: Alexander and the Dead in Persian Epic and Beyond......Page 228
 13 Slavic Epic: Past Tales and Present Myths......Page 239
 14 Historicity and Anachronism in Beowulf......Page 259
 15 The Nibelungenlied - Myth and History: A Middle High German Epic Poem at the Crossroads of Past and Present, Despair and Hope......Page 278
 16 Medieval Epic and History in the Romance Literatures......Page 296
 17 Roland's Migration from Anglo-Norman Epic to Royal French Chronicle History......Page 309
 18 A Recurrent Theme of the Spanish Medieval Epic: Complaints and Laments by Noble Women......Page 326
 19 History in Medieval Scandinavian Heroic Literature and the Northwest European Context......Page 344
 20 Traditional History in South Slavic Oral Epic......Page 363
 21 Lord Five Thunder and the 12 Eagles and Jaguars of Rabinal Meet Charlemagne and the 12 Knights of France......Page 378
 22 History, Myth, and Social Function in Southern African Nguni Praise Poetry......Page 397
 23 Epic and History in the Arabic Tradition......Page 408
 24 Comments on “Epic and History"......Page 427
 Index......Page 441