Book by Jonathan Ready
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad, 2024
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad, 2024
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Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad, 2023
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts, 2019
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Te... more Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts
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Features • Traces the intricate history of Homeric texts from the Archaic to the Hellenistic peri... more Features • Traces the intricate history of Homeric texts from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, long before the emergence of standardized written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey • Addresses central components of the Homeric tradition from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on material and approaches from classical studies to folklore and from religious studies to medieval studies • Includes English translations of all foreign and ancient languages, ensuring accessibility to readers regardless of language familiarity "Ready neatly maneuvers past older discussions of the Homeric Question by advancing fresh arguments from a performance perspective. The combination of comparativist chops and heterodox dismantling of previous hypotheses will turn heads. This book breaks new ground and will change the course of Homeric studies. "-Professor
Ready Tsagalis eds 2018 Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters (University of... more Ready Tsagalis eds 2018 Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters (University of Texas Press). Cover, Table of Contents, and Flyer with Discount Code.
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P resenting a new take on what made the Homeric epics such successful examples of verbal artistry... more P resenting a new take on what made the Homeric epics such successful examples of verbal artistry, this volume explores the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from the neglected comparative perspectives offered by the study of modern-day oral traditions.
Jonathan L. Ready offers the first comprehensive examination of Homer's similes in the Iliad as a... more Jonathan L. Ready offers the first comprehensive examination of Homer's similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. This study concentrates primarily on similes spoken by Homeric characters. The first to offer a sustained exploration of such similes, Ready shows how characters are made to contest through and over simile not only with one another but also with the narrator. Ready investigates the narrator's similes as well. He demonstrates that Homer amplifies the feat of a successful warrior by providing a competitive orientation to sequences of similes used to describe battles. He also offers a new interpretation of Homer's extended similes as a means for the poet to imagine his characters as competitors for his attention. Throughout this study, Ready makes innovative use of approaches from both Homeric studies and narratology that have not yet been applied to the analysis of Homer's similes.
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Journal Articles by Jonathan Ready
Classical Antiquity, 2020
This article focuses on those Iliadic characters who fall in battle to the poem’s major heroes. H... more This article focuses on those Iliadic characters who fall in battle to the poem’s major heroes. Homer has various ways to make these characters minor, such as through processes of obscuring or typification or by focusing on a specific body part. By making a character minor, the poet signals that we need not attend to him. After he makes a character minor, the poet can suggest that in the process of being made minor a character paradoxically ends up diverting attention from another character, or he can portray minorness as marked by an inability to divert attention from another. The poet can present in one episode these two different visions of minorness and can make one character depict another as minor by using the tactics deployed by the narrator. This study accentuates the narratological complexities that arise in the poet’s depiction of minor characters. That complexity shapes our understanding of the Iliad’s concern with the distribution of narrative attention among all its characters.
The textualized versions of Homeric epic that stemmed from a process of dictation should be under... more The textualized versions of Homeric epic that stemmed from a process of dictation should be understood as co-creations of the poet, scribe, and collector. The evidence provided by numerous modern-day instances of the textualization of an oral traditional work supports this inference. (An updated and more accessible presentation of this argument appears in Chapter 3 of Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts.)
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Updated versions of the arguments presented herein can be found in my 2011 book ( Character, Narr... more Updated versions of the arguments presented herein can be found in my 2011 book ( Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad [Cambridge UP])
A warrior amasses spoils at (re)distributions, and the discrepancy over who allots the booty allo... more A warrior amasses spoils at (re)distributions, and the discrepancy over who allots the booty allows a speaker to focus on the group's or the individual leader's role as he sees fit. A warrior also garners spoils on his own by, for example, despoiling his enemies of armor. Seeing the two means of acquisition as modes of exchange elucidates the distinctions between them. Forms of individual acquisition immediately reward the warrior for his labor and exemplify what Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry call "short-term transactions." A warrior also performs a "long-term transaction" when he toils in battle with a view to participating in a (re)distribution that is intended to perpetuate the longterm social and cosmic order. Achilles posits a long-term transaction based on warriors' providing material for the (re)distribution from goods they have obtained through short-term transactions on the battlefield.
Book Chapters by Jonathan Ready
To show their competence as performers, oral poets make use of a figurative spectrum of distribut... more To show their competence as performers, oral poets make use of a figurative spectrum of distribution: they deploy both idiolectal similes unique to their performances and dialectal and pan-traditional similes shared with other poets. Moreover, when presenting idiolectal similes, they at times generate similes that come down squarely on the idiolectal end of the figurative spectrum of distribution and at times turn to similes that move from one end of the spectrum to the other. With these facts in mind, we can sharpen our understanding of Homer's compositional practices when it comes to similes.
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By Jonathan L. Ready
2018
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The volume consists of six papers that propose new approaches to the study of fragmentary Hesiodic epic. They explore interpretive questions referring not only to the better-studied Catalogue of Women and the Aspis, but also to rather neglected epics such as the Megalai Ehoiai, the Melampodia, and the Marriage of Ceyx. In addition, a fair number of the papers included in this volume question the order of the Hesiodic fragments adopted in the edition of R. Merkelbach and M. L. West.
To date, four volumes of the Yearbook have been published (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). All submissions are subject to a process of double-blind peer review. We ask authors to prepare submissions accordingly. There is no word count minimum or maximum. The volumes are published in November. Final accepted manuscripts are submitted to Brill the previous May.
Please send submissions in pdf format via email to either Jonathan Ready or Christos Tsagalis.
• Jonathan Ready, Professor of Classical Studies, University of Michigan: jready@umich.edu
• Christos Tsagalis, Professor of Greek, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki:
christos.tsagalis@gmail.com
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