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Homer the Preclassic
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Gregory Nagy
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English
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2012
About this book
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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Nagy Gregory :
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.
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eBook published on:
February 7, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9780520950245
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432
eBook ISBN:
9780520950245
Keywords for this book
ancient literature; classical literature; greek epics; epic poems; illiad; odyssey; ancient greece; greek writers; ancient greek literature; oral tradition; greek orators; ancient rome; literary classics; literature professors; history of poetry; ancient writers; ancient athens; history of greece; epics and sagas; high school english class; studying literature; writers; discussion books; literary criticism; homeric poetry; sixth century; homeric studies; epic; greek roman thought; homeric poems; poetry
