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The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life, and thus exercised a lasting influence on both civilizations. This volume presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora. Part One analyzes their genesis and their reception, while Part Two discusses their characteristics as poetic creations. The book brings together Chinese and Western sinologists and classicists, and so promotes significant interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. Though the contributors rank among the leading experts in their fields, the essays here are accessible not only to their peers, but also to the interested ‘general reader’, and so to all those who seek a deeper understanding of Chinese and Western civilizations, their common human basis and their characteristic differences.

Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Conventions and Abbreviations ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction 1
PART I. THE HISTORY OF THE TEXTS AND OF THEIR RECEPTION
A. Coming into Being
1. The Formation of the Homeric Epics 15
Margalit FINKELBERG
2. The Formation of the Classic of Poetry 39
Martin KERN
3. Comparing the Comings into Being
of Homeric Epic and the Shijing 73
Alexander BEECROFT
B. “Philological” Reception
1. Homeric Scholarship in its Formative Stages 87
Barbara GRAZIOSI
2. Odes Scholarship in its Formative Stage 117
Achim MITTAG
3. The Beginning of Scholarship
in Homeric Epic and the Odes: a Comparison 149
GAO Fengfeng / LIU Chun
C. Cultural Role
1. Homer in Greek Culture
from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period 163
Glenn W. MOST
2. Cultural Roles of the Book of Songs: Inherited Language,
Education, and the Problem of Composition 185
David SCHABERG
3. Canon, Citation and Pedagogy:
the Homeric Epics and the Book of Poetry 207
ZHANG Longxi
PART II. THE TEXTS AS POETRY
A. Form and Structure
1. Iliad and Odyssey: Homer’s Epic Narratives 229
Fritz-Heiner MUTSCHLER / Ernst A. SCHMIDT
2. The Shijing: The Collection of Three Hundred 255
CHEN Zhi / Nick M. WILLIAMS
3. Comparing Form and Structure in Homer and the Shijing 283
ZHANG Wei
B. Contents
1. Iliad and Odyssey: Story, Concerns, Scenes 299
Øivind ANDERSEN
2. Recurrent Concerns and Typical Scenes
in the Book of Songs 329
Wai-yee LI
3. The Contents of the Homeric Epics and the Shijing:
Comparative Remarks 359
Fritz-Heiner MUTSCHLER
4. “Heroes” and “Gods” in Homer and the Classic of Poetry 375
Andrew H. PLAKS
C. Values
1. Homeric Values and the Virtues of Kingship 381
Douglas CAIRNS
2. The Values of the Book of Songs and the Virtues of Leaders 411
Yiqun ZHOU
3. Values Compared: Homer and the Book of Songs 439
HUANG Yang / YAN Shaoxiang
Looking Backward and Forward 451
Fritz-Heiner MUTSCHLER
Glossary of Chinese Characters 467
Index of Names 475
Index of Works and Passages 485
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