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Homer the preclassic / Gregory Nagy.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nagy, Gregory.
- Series:
- Sather classical lectures ; v. 67.
- Sather classical lectures ; v. 67
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homer--Criticism and interpretation.
- Homer.
- Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Greek.
- Oral tradition--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Oral tradition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- MAPS
- FIGURES
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Homer and the Athenian Empire
- 2. Homer Outside His Poetry
- 3. Homer and His Genealogy
- 4. Homer in the Homeric Odyssey
- 5. Iliadic Multiformities
- 6. Variations onaTheme of Homer
- 7. Conflicting Claims on Homer
- 8. Homeric Variations onaTheme of Empire
- 9. Further Variations onaTheme of Homer
- 10. Homer and the Poetics of Variation
- Epilegomena. A Preclassical Text of Homer in the Making
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-402) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786613520555
- 9781280102165
- 1280102160
- 9780520950245
- 0520950240
- OCLC:
- 779828679
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