Homeric questions / / Gregory Nagy
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| Autore: |
Nagy Gregory
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| Titolo: |
Homeric questions / / Gregory Nagy
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| Pubblicazione: | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 1996 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 883/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
| Oral tradition - Greece | |
| Oral-formulaic analysis | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Homer and Questions of Oral Poetry -- CHAPTER 2 An Evolutionary Model for the Making of Homeric Poetry -- CHAPTER 3 Homer and the Evolution of a Homeric Text -- CHAPTER 4 Myth as Exemplum in Homer -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The "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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Homeric questions |
| ISBN: | 0-292-79621-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821636203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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