{"title":"D. M. Smith","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-cypria-reconstructing-the-lost-prequel-to-homers-iliad-paperback","title":"The Cypria: Reconstructing the Lost Prequel to Homer's Iliad - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Classical times, the story of the Trojan War was told in a series of eight epic poems known as the Epic Cycle, of which only the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e by Homer survive to the present day. The first poem in the sequence was the \u003ci\u003eCypria, \u003c\/i\u003e which described the early years of the war from Eris' casting of the golden apple at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, to Paris' abduction of Helen, the sacrifice of Iphigenia, Odysseus' treacherous murder of Palamedes, and finally, the enslavement of Briseis and Chryseis, which sowed the seeds of the conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon in the \u003ci\u003eIliad.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eCypria\u003c\/i\u003e is now lost, but the myths it once contained are known from a number of later writings. In an ambitious exercise in literary back-breeding, editor D. M. Smith attempts to reconstruct the lost prequel to Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e from the available material. Included are excerpts from Ovid's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses, \u003c\/i\u003e Apollodorus' \u003ci\u003eBibliotheca, \u003c\/i\u003e Euripides' \u003ci\u003eIphigenia at Aulis\u003c\/i\u003e and Colluthus' \u003ci\u003eThe Rape of Helen, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as lesser known documents such as \u003ci\u003eDictys Cretensis Ephemeris Belli Trojani, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eExcidium Troiae\u003c\/i\u003e - a medieval summary of a lost Roman account of the Trojan War, discovered among the papers of an 18th century clergyman in the 1930s. This eclectic melange of Greek and Latin texts has been carefully edited and arranged in accordance with the known chronology of the \u003ci\u003eCypria, \u003c\/i\u003e thus allowing readers to trace the story of this vanished epic as a continuous narrative for the first time in over a thousand years.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367390839007,"sku":"9781546302957","price":25.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ELgAgtzMmH9781546302957.webp?v=1789106185"},{"product_id":"the-telegony-rediscovering-the-lost-epilogue-to-homers-odyssey-paperback","title":"The Telegony: Rediscovering the Lost Epilogue to Homer's Odyssey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn classical times, the story of the Trojan War was told in a series of eight epic poems known as the Epic Cycle, of which only the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e by Homer survive to the present day. The final poem in the sequence was Eugammon of Cyrene's \u003ci\u003eTelegony\u003c\/i\u003e-an obscure, largely forgotten post-script to the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, which told of the hero's adventures in the years after his return to Ithaca, and his eventual death at the hands of Telegonus, his eponymous son by the goddess Circe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eTelegony\u003c\/i\u003e is now lost, but fragments of Odysseus' post-Homeric life are preserved in the works of later authors. Following on from his 2017 reconstruction of the \u003ci\u003eCypria\u003c\/i\u003e, editor D. M. Smith provides an exhaustive compilation of these many and varied sources, illustrating how Eugammon's poem was just one of several competing traditions concerning Odysseus' eventual fate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded are excerpts from Apollodorus' \u003ci\u003eBibliotheca\u003c\/i\u003e, Hyginus' \u003ci\u003eFabulae\u003c\/i\u003e, Parthenius' \u003ci\u003eErotica Pathemata\u003c\/i\u003e, and the fictional Trojan War diary of Dictys Cretensis, as well as the writings of Oppian, Plutarch, Servius, and the second-century geographer Pausanias. Smith also presents two medieval interpretations of the Telegonus story by the Middle English poets John Gower and John Lydgate. The \u003ci\u003eTelegony\u003c\/i\u003e may be gone forever, but in its absence, this comprehensive anthology will at least shed some light on what became of the wily son of Laertes after Homer left off.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378346000607,"sku":"9798629652120","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ge5J1kNRhB9798629652120.webp?v=1789254456"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/d-m-smith.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}