title: A Rudimentary Motif in Greek Epic (Pylos Combat Agate and the Iliad 3. 369–376)
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metadata.value: Kazansky, Nikolai N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-21T20:06:46Z
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metadata.value: 2023-02-21T20:06:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Kazansky N. N. A Rudimentary Motif in Greek Epic (Pylos Combat Agate and the Iliad 3. 369–376). Philologia Classica 2022, 17 (2), 202–225. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.201
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.201
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39149
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metadata.value: In 2015, Jack Davis and Sharon Stocker, while excavating the so-called “Tomb of a warrior
  with a griffin”, discovered an agate seal with an extraordinarily detailed depiction of a combat
  scene. It shows a warrior armed with a sword only, bending over his adversary’s shield, grabbing
  him by the crest of his helmet and using it as leverage to render him absolutely powerless.
  The article studies the image on the Pylos combat agate as a reflection of an early epic
  narrative. It is shown that the account of the combat between Menelaus and Paris in the Iliad
  (3. 369–376) is an elaboration on a traditional epic narrative that was preserved in the text
  of the Iliad as a rudimentary motif (following Th. Zelinsky’s terminology). The comparison
  of this narrative with the Pylos combat agate allows us to comment the Homeric episode in
  a new way, insofar as it preserves the description of the type of helmet that was in use in the
  16th–15th centuries BCE. This helmet would have permitted the adversary to turn the helmeted
  warrior’s head in the way that is depicted on the Pylos combat agate. It is noteworthy that
  the Homeric account begins with “were it not for…”, negating the version of events that was
  the basis of the earlier epic narrative. As a result, we are able to reconstruct several fragments
  of the heroic epos going back to early Mycenaean times, unsurprisingly connected (as already
  surmised by Ruijgh) with Peloponnesus of the 17th–15th centuries BCE.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 17; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Greek epic
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Homer
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Iliad
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rudimentary motif
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pylos Combat Agate
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: combat of Menelaus and Paris (Il. 3. 369–376)
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: A Rudimentary Motif in Greek Epic (Pylos Combat Agate and the Iliad 3. 369–376)
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metadata.value: Article
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