Hippota Nestor and Beyond - Selected Essays

In Hippota Nestor and Beyond: Selected Essays, Douglas Frame revisits the Homeric figure of Nestor, who he argues derives from twin figures in Indo-European myth, and dates the composition and performance of the Iliad and Odyssey to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE at a festival of twelve Ionian cities in Asia Minor. Frame takes up subjects such as the evidence for Nestor's Indo-European origins; the related origins of the Greek word noos, "mind"; the Phaeacians in the Odyssey as the key to the circumstances in which the Homeric poems were created; Nestor's role connecting the two poems into a one whole. Other essays in the collect break new ground with respect to the circumstances of the poems' performance; the purpose of the poems in their historical setting; the relation of the poems to other poetic monuments of the time; the reception of the poems in the Greek mainland after their origin in Ionia; and a closer tracking of the Indo-European origins of the figure hippota Nestor, "the horseman Nestor," in light of the invention of the chariot in the Russian steppes c. 2000 BCE.

Info autore

Douglas Frame was Associate Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University and a teacher of Greek and Latin languages and literature.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Douglas Frame
• Editore: University Presses
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.08.2026
• EAN: 9780674305540
• ISBN: 978-0-674-30554-0
• Pagine: 290
• Serie: Classical Continuum
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica classica; European History, Linguistics, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Communication Studies, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Language teaching and learning, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Orality / Oral transmission, LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Orality