Homer the preclassic
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Homer the Preclassicconsiders the development of the Homeric poems-in particular theIliadandOdyssey-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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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Gregory
Homer
Homer.
Nagy - Language
- English
- Series
- Sather classical lectures 67
- ISBN
- 9780520950245
- Release date
- 2010
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Homer the Preclassicconsiders the development of the Homeric poems-in particular theIliadandOdyssey-during the time when they were still part of the oral tra...