Homer the Preclassic

Zusatztext "Gregory Nagy, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University, is a one-person Homeric Studies institution. His remarkable achievement in this conveniently reissued work may most captivate and impress antiquarians in several subfields of Classics. . . . Scholars and students not only in literary studies but also in political history, religious studies, art history, and archaeology will learn from lots of ingeniously marshaled information and well-reasoned speculation regarding Aeolian, Ionian, and finally Athenian hero cult; about celebration of a nation’s heroic past and about cultural politics and agendas." Informationen zum Autor Gregory Nagy is the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. This book is adapted from his 2002 Sather Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext "Nagy’s brilliant narrative marks the culmination of a lifetime spent investigating Homeric art, resulting in a highly variegated and hugely pleasurable book, fundamental for those who want to appreciate the beauties of epic.” —Richard P. Martin, author of The Language of Heroes Zusammenfassung 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. This title traces the evolution of rival 'Homers' and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Nagy, Nagy Gregory
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2012
• EAN: 9780520256927
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25692-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Sather Classical Lectures; Sather Classical Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory