Phenomenology of Home in Archaic Greek Poetry (A01)

• Subject Area: Greek and Latin Philology
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 517096657

The subproject explores models of home in early Greek poetry. There is no Greek term for home, and yet various genres, such as Homeric epic, Hesiod’s didactic poetry and archaic lyric poetry, describe the sense of belonging that constitutes home. It is our goal to analyze the role played by places, things, practices, human beings and times and to relate it both the literary forms and the sociopolitical contexts of genres.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1671: Home(s): Phenomena, Practices, Representations
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Jonas Grethlein