Inaug.-Diss.--München. / Curriculum Vitae. Bibliography: p. 155-179.

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Kwong, Yu Tao Wilfred. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-109). / Includes Chinese characters; abstracts also in Chinese. / Chapter ONE --- Introduction / Definitions for the Epic --- p.6 / The Original Meaning of “επo₁ت´ح --- p.10 / The Ancients´ة Definition of “επo₁ت´ح --- p.12 / The Greek Hexameter and the Chinese Tetrameter --- p.15 / The Shijing as China´ةs Epic --- p.16 / Chapter TWO --- The Shijing's Epic Language / Variant Forms and Synonyms --- p.18 / Traditional Oral Language --- p.19 / Emphatic Particles and Xuci --- p.23 / Flexibility and Malleability of Oral Language --- p.26 / Summary --- p.30 / Chapter THREE --- The Shijing's Epic Structure / Repetition and Formulae --- p.31 / Formulaic Structure --- p.37 / Artis Causa --- p.40 / The Role of Xuci Particles --- p.45 / Summary --- p.47 / Chapter FOUR --- The Shijing 's Epic Content / Archaic content --- p.48 / Sacrificial Rites --- p.49 / War Honour and Glory --- p.61 / Nature Plants and Animals --- p.67 / Digressions --- p.74 / Oral Context of Visual Digressions --- p.81 / Summary --- p.91 / Chapter FIVE --- Remaining Differences between the Shijing and Homer / Difference in length --- p.92 / Narrative versus lyric --- p.93 / Cultural Differences --- p.95 / Chapter SIX --- Conclusion / BIBLIOGRAPHY

Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Pretoria, 2005. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-143).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1990. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [283]-293).

Originally presented as the author's thesis, Teheran, 1968. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-258).

Thesis--Munich. / Bibliography: p. 519-549.

This thesis is concerned with the pseudo-Hesiodic Aspis, also known as the Scutum or Shield of Herakles (Heracles). It is divided into two halves: the Introduction, consisting of four chapters, is followed by detailed line-by-line commentary on a portion of the Greek text. Chapter I surveys the evidence for the poem's origins and dating before moving on to its scholarly reception since Wolf. It then argues that, for a proper understanding of the Aspis, the methodologies of oral poetics must be balanced with an awareness of its responses to fixed texts (in particular the Iliad). Chapter II examines the author as a poet within the oral tradition, focussing on: narrative style and structuring; type-scenes; similes; poetic ethos; the poem's position relative to the Hesiodic corpus; the use of formular language; and the growth of the poem in the author's hands. These problems are most fruitfully approached by taking account of the interplay of tradition on the one hand and of allusion to specific texts on the other. Wider points about the advanced stages of the oral tradition also emerge; in particular, from an analysis of narrative inconsistencies in the Aspis it is suggested that writing played a role in the poem's composition. Chapter III positions the poet within the literary tradition: his interactions with other songs and tales are sometimes sophisticated engagements of a kind more often detected in Hellenistic and Roman poetry. The presentation of the protagonist of the Aspis evinces the poet's skilful handling of myth, here manipulated for political purposes. Chapter III concludes with a survey of the poem's reception in early art and in literature up to Byzantine times. In Chapter IV the central section of the poem, the description of Herakles' shield (vv. 139-320), is examined in detail, both in relation to the Homeric Shield of Achilles and within the context of the Aspis. The second half of the thesis comprises a critical edition of and lemmatic commentary on vv. 139-237.

This thesis explores the theme of the motivation of soldiers in Greek lyric poetry while holding it up against the backdrop of epic. The motivation of soldiers expressed in lyric poetry depicts a complex system that demanded cohesion across various spheres in life. This system was designed to create and maintain social, communal, and political cohesion as well as cohesion in the ranks. The lyric poems reveal a mutually beneficial relationship between citizen and polis whereby the citizens were willing to fight and potentially die on behalf of the state, and in return they received prominence and rewards within the community. It is no coincidence that these themes were so common in a genre that was popular at the same time as the polis and citizen army were both developing.