Ebook: Homer the preclassic
Author: Homer Homer., Nagy Gregory
- Tags: Homer -- Criticism and interpretation. Epic poetry Greek -- History and criticism. Oral tradition -- Greece -- History -- To 1500. Homer. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical. Epic poetry Greek. Oral tradition. Greece.
- Series: Sather classical lectures 67
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- City: Berkeley, Greece
- Edition: 0
- Language: English
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Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival Homers” and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Accurate in their linguistic detail and surprising in their implications, Nagy's insights conjure the Greeks' nostalgia for the imagined epic space” of Troy and for the resonances and distortions this mythic past provided to the various Greek constituencies for whom the Homeric poems were so central and definitive.
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