Pindar's Homer : the lyric possession of an epic past / Gregory Nagy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagy, Gregory.

Contributor:

Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pindar--Knowledge and learning--Literature.

Pindar.

Homer.

Literature.

Laudatory poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Laudatory poetry, Greek.

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Homer--Appreciation--Greece.

Homer--Influence.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 523 pages)

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1990]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. Throughout, he progressively broadens the definition of lyric to the point where it becomes the basis for defining epic, rather than the other way around.

Contents:

Introduction: A Word on Assumptions, Methods, and Aims 1

1 Oral Poetry and Ancient Greek Poetry: Broadening and Narrowing the Terms 17

2 The Poetics of Panhellenism and the Enigma of Authorship in Early Greece 52

3 The Panhellenization of Song 82

4 Pindar's Olympian 1 and the Aetiology of the Olympic Games 116

5 The Ordeal of the Athlete and the Burden of the Poet 136

6 Epic, Praise, and the Possession of Poetry 146

7 Pindar and Homer, Athlete and Hero 199

8 The Authoritative Speech of Prose, Poetry, and Song: Pindar and Herodotus I 215

9 The Authority of Historia and the Sign of the Hero 250

10 The Charms of Tyranny: Pindar and Herodotus II 274

11 The Ainos as Song or Speech: Pindar and Herodotus III 314

12 Authority and Authorship in the Lyric Tradition 339

13 The Genesis of Athenian State Theater and the Survival of Pindar's Poetry 382

14 Pindar's Homer 414

Appendix: A Comparative Survey of Pindar's Meters 439.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-493 and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Nagy, Gregory. Pindar's Homer.

OCLC:

644609675