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Homer the Preclassic: Volume 67

Homer the Preclassic: Volume 67

Nagy, Gregory

Hardcover

Series: Sather Classical Lectures, Book 67

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0520256921
ISBN13: 9780520256927
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Feb 7 2012
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Homer the Preclassic 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. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival Homers and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Accurate in their linguistic detail and surprising in their implications, Nagy's insights conjure the Greeks' nostalgia for the imagined epic space of Troy and for the resonances and distortions this mythic past provided to the various Greek constituencies for whom the Homeric poems were so central and definitive.

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