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Plato's rhapsody and Homer's music : the poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in classical Athens / by Gregory Nagy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nagy, Gregory.
- Series:
- Hellenic studies ; 1.
- Hellenic studies ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homer--Literary style.
- Homer.
- Plato.
- Athena (Greek deity).
- Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Greek.
- Athena (Greek deity)--Cult--Greece--Athens.
- Athena.
- Performing arts--Greece--Athens.
- Performing arts.
- Aesthetics.
- Cults.
- Literary style.
- Athens (Greece)--Civilization.
- Athens (Greece).
- Oral tradition--Greece.
- Oral tradition.
- Greece.
- Oral-formulaic analysis.
- Transmission of texts.
- Plato--Aesthetics.
- Homer--Aesthetics.
- Aesthetics, Ancient.
- Panathenaia.
- Poetics.
- Greece--Athens.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 124 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies : Trustees for Harvard University ; A Athens, Greece : Foundation of the Hellenic World ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these Homeric performances. Plato's fine ear for language--in this case the technical language of high-class artisans like rhapsodes--picks up on a variety of authentic expressions that echo the talk of rhapsodes as they once practiced their art.
- Contents:
- Homer and Plato at the Panathenaia
- Epic as music: rhapsodic models of Homer in Plato's Timaeus and Critias
- Humnos in Homer and Plato: weaving the robe of the goddess.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-114) and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Nagy, Gregory. Plato's rhapsody and Homer's music.
- OCLC:
- 606914451
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