LEADER 03240nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910821636203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-79621-8 024 7 $a10.7560/755611 035 $a(CKB)1000000000461902 035 $a(OCoLC)70183048 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245675 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000172836 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11176864 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172836 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10163126 035 $a(PQKB)11484689 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443207 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1919 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443207 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245675 035 $a(DE-B1597)587625 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292796218 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000461902 100 $a19951013d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHomeric questions /$fGregory Nagy 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d1996 215 $a1 online resource (193 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-292-75561-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER 1 Homer and Questions of Oral Poetry --$tCHAPTER 2 An Evolutionary Model for the Making of Homeric Poetry --$tCHAPTER 3 Homer and the Evolution of a Homeric Text --$tCHAPTER 4 Myth as Exemplum in Homer --$tEpilogue --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history? Or does the name "Homer" hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period of oral composition and transmission? In this innovative investigation, Gregory Nagy applies the insights of comparative linguistics and anthropology to offer a new historical model for understanding how, when, where, and why the Iliad and the Odyssey were ultimately preserved as written texts that could be handed down over two millennia. His model draws on the comparative evidence provided by living oral epic traditions, in which each performance of a song often involves a recomposition of the narrative. This evidence suggests that the written texts emerged from an evolutionary process in which composition, performance, and diffusion interacted to create the epics we know as the Iliad and the Odyssey. Sure to challenge orthodox views and provoke lively debate, Nagy's book will be essential reading for all students of oral traditions. 606 $aEpic poetry, Greek$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aOral tradition$zGreece 606 $aOral-formulaic analysis 615 0$aEpic poetry, Greek$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aOral tradition 615 0$aOral-formulaic analysis. 676 $a883/.01 700 $aNagy$b Gregory$0169582 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821636203321 996 $aHomeric questions$9305618 997 $aUNINA