Homer's text and language / Gregory Nagy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagy, Gregory.

Contributor:

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

Series:

Traditions (Urbana, Ill.)

Traditions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer--Criticism, Textual.

Homer.

Criticism, Textual.

Epic poetry, Greek--Criticism, Textual.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Greek language--Etymology.

Greek language.

Homer--Language.

Local Subjects:

Homer--Language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 197 pages).

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"In Homeric studies, an ongoing debate centers on different ways to establish the texts of Homer and the different ways to appreciate the poetry created in the language of Homer. Gregory Nagy, a lifelong Homer scholar, takes a stand in the midst of this debate. He presents an overview of millennia of engagement with Homer's poetry, shows the different editorial principles that have been applied to the texts, and evaluates their impact."--Jacket.

Contents:

1. The quest for a definitive test of Homer : evidence from the Homeric scholia and beyond

2. The Homeric text and problems of multiformity

3. Editing the Homeric text : West's Iliad

4. Editing the Homeric text : different methods, ancient and modern

5. Aristarchean questions : emerging certainties about the finality of Homer's text

6. The nature of Achilles : questions of etymology and "folk-etymology"

7. The name of Apollo : etymology and essence

8. An etymology for the dactylic hexameter

9. Ellipsis in Homeric poetry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index.

Title from title screen.

ISBN:

0252029836

9780252029837

OCLC:

55488052