Homer the Preclassic

By:

Gregory Nagy

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Sather Classical Lectures

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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.

Author Biography:

Gregory Nagy is the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. This book is adapted from his 2002 Sather Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley.

Release date NZ

February 24th, 2017

Author

Gregory Nagy

Series

Sather Classical Lectures

Pages

432

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

14 black-and-white photographs and 2 maps

Dimensions

152x229x25

ISBN-13

9780520294875

Product ID

26392775

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