Book contents
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- General Introduction
- Part I Homeric Song and Text
- Introduction
- Homeric Epic in Performance
- Homeric Poetics
- Homer in a World of Song
- Epic Traditions
- Mythic Background
- The Language of Homer
- From Song to Text
- Key Topics
- Achilles
- Ancient Near Eastern Epic
- Batrakhomuomakhia (The Battle of Frogs and Mice)
- Catalogues
- Dreams
- Early Editions
- Ekphrasis
- Epic Cycle
- Epithets
- Formula
- Gods and Goddesses
- Hesiod and Homer
- Home
- Homer and Indo-European Myth
- Homer and the Alphabet
- Homeric Body and Mind
- Homeric Dialects
- Homeric Humor
- The Homeric Hymns
- Homeric Scholia
- Hospitality
- The Iliad: An Overview
- Immanence
- Kleos
- Lament
- Margites
- Meter
- Narrative
- Odysseus
- The Odyssey: An Overview
- Panathenaia
- Panhellenism
- Pisistratus
- Rhapsodes and the Homēridai
- Ring Composition
- Similes
- Speech
- Trojan Horse
- Troy
- Type Scene
- Part II Homeric World
- Part III Homer in the World
- Bibliography
- Index
Ring Composition
from Key Topics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- General Introduction
- Part I Homeric Song and Text
- Introduction
- Homeric Epic in Performance
- Homeric Poetics
- Homer in a World of Song
- Epic Traditions
- Mythic Background
- The Language of Homer
- From Song to Text
- Key Topics
- Achilles
- Ancient Near Eastern Epic
- Batrakhomuomakhia (The Battle of Frogs and Mice)
- Catalogues
- Dreams
- Early Editions
- Ekphrasis
- Epic Cycle
- Epithets
- Formula
- Gods and Goddesses
- Hesiod and Homer
- Home
- Homer and Indo-European Myth
- Homer and the Alphabet
- Homeric Body and Mind
- Homeric Dialects
- Homeric Humor
- The Homeric Hymns
- Homeric Scholia
- Hospitality
- The Iliad: An Overview
- Immanence
- Kleos
- Lament
- Margites
- Meter
- Narrative
- Odysseus
- The Odyssey: An Overview
- Panathenaia
- Panhellenism
- Pisistratus
- Rhapsodes and the Homēridai
- Ring Composition
- Similes
- Speech
- Trojan Horse
- Troy
- Type Scene
- Part II Homeric World
- Part III Homer in the World
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Ring composition is a way of indicating the unity of a specific episode by means of symmetry: the first element corresponds to the last, the second to the next-to-last, and so on.
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- The Cambridge Guide to Homer , pp. 199 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020