Homer the preclassic / Gregory Nagy.

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Nagy, Gregory

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Sather classical lecturesPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2017, c2010.Description: xiii, 414 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

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9780520294875 (pbk.)

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883.01

Summary: "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 B.C.E. to the Bronze Age. 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 who the Homeric poems were so central and definitive."-- Publisher's description.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 B.C.E. to the Bronze Age. 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 who the Homeric poems were so central and definitive."-- Publisher's description.