Browsing by Author "Elmer, David"

An Acropolis in China: The Appropriation of Ancient Greek Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature

Chen, Jingling (2016-05-17)

This dissertation explores the transcultural relationships between modern China and ancient Greece, with a view toward appreciating how Greek philosophical and literary visions have been received, reformulated, and repurposed ...

Building Community Across the Battle-Lines: The Truce in Iliad 3 and 4

Elmer, David Franklin (Verlag Antike, 2012)

The Epic Cycle and the Ancient Novel

Elmer, David Franklin (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Epikoinos: The Ball Game Episkuros and Iliad 12.421–23

Elmer, David Franklin (University of Chicago Press, 2008)

Helen Epigrammatopoios

Elmer, David Franklin (University of California Press, 2005)

Ancient commentators identify several passages in the Iliad as “epigrams.” This paper explores the consequences of taking the scholia literally and understanding these passages in terms of inscription. Two tristichs spoken ...

Heliodoros' "Sources": Intertextuality, Paternity, and the Nile River in the Aithiopika

Elmer, David Franklin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)

Kharikleia, the heroine of Heliodoros’s Aithiopika, shares with the novel a tripartite identity; she is a metaphor for the incorporation of multiple literary models into a single text. Heliodoros sets up the Nile river as ...

The Meaning of Melody: Remarks on the Performance-Based Analysis of Bosniac Epic Song.

Elmer, David Franklin; Bonifazi, Anna (Verlag, 2012)

The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature

Elmer, David Franklin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)

This essay provides a brief historical sketch of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature and describes recent efforts to provide electronic access to the contents of the archive. It concludes with thoughts about ...

The ‘Narrow Road’ and the Ethics of Language Use in the Iliad and the Odyssey

Elmer, David Franklin (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015)

I begin this exploration of characteristically Iliadic and Odyssean attitudes toward the traditional language in which these poems are composed by treading again a well-rutted path in the field of mid-20th century Homeric ...

Orestes in Skopje: The Macedonian Oresteia of Milcho Manchevski

Elmer, David Franklin (Center for Hellenic Studies, 2012)

Presentation Formulas in South Slavic Epic Song

Elmer, David Franklin (Center for Studies in Oral Tradition, 2009)

Textual Jealousies in Chariton’s Callirhoe

Elmer, David (University of California Press, 2022-04-01)

Chariton’s novel, Chaereas and Callirhoe, is intensely interested not only in the emotional experience of the protagonists but also in the emotional effect the narrative has on readers. Among the many emotions depicted ...