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The rise of the Greek epic: being a course of lectures delivered at Harvard University (Second Edition)

The rise of the Greek epic: being a course of lectures delivered at Harvard University (Second Edition)

Murray, Gilbert

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Mythology & FolkloreAncient RomeFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 9353708060
ISBN13: 9789353708061
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
How did song become scripture? In these renowned classical literature lectures, Gilbert Murray traces the moment the Greek epic took shape and began to speak for Europe. Listen to the bards speak. Delivered at Harvard and revised for a Second Edition, this book offers a vivid entrance to archaic Greece literature and the mind of ancient Greek civilization. Moving from greek epic poetry origins to the polished grandeur of Homer, Murray sets out a bracing homeric tradition analysis: what the poems inherited, what they transformed, and why their power endures. His argument keeps close to the realities of oral epic storytelling, the social world of singers, and the gradual shaping of heroic legend into art. Read it for clear iliad odyssey background, for literary criticism classic essays that still spark debate, and for the wider frame of comparative epic poetry studies across cultures. It stands equally well as a classics scholarship reference, a classics students course text, and an intelligent greek literature study guide for readers returning to the classics with fresh eyes. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. A landmark of early twentieth-century classics, it illuminates how scholarship and imagination meet, and why epic still matters. For casual readers, it is an inviting map of the poems; for classic-literature collectors, a handsome return to a pivotal voice in the Western canon.

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