Homer the preclassic

Author(s)

• Nagy, Gregory

Bibliographic Information

Homer the preclassic

Gregory Nagy

（Sather classical lectures, v. 67）

University of California Press, c2010

• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-402) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"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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Details

• NCID: BB08989145
• ISBN:
  • 9780520256927
• LCCN: 2010048822
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 414 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA4037
  • DC22 : 883/.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Homer -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Oral tradition -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00499076