Homer the preclassic [[electronic resource] /] / Gregory Nagy

• Autore: Nagy Gregory
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Disciplina: 883/.01
• Soggetto topico: Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism; Oral tradition - Greece - History - To 1500
• Soggetto non controllato: ancient athens; ancient greece; ancient greek literature; ancient literature; ancient rome; ancient writers; classical literature; discussion books; epic poems; epic; epics and sagas; greek epics; greek orators; greek roman thought; greek writers; high school english class; history of greece; history of poetry; homeric poems; homeric poetry; homeric studies; illiad; literary classics; literary criticism; literature professors; odyssey; oral tradition; poetry; sixth century; studying literature; writers
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-402) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- MAPS -- FIGURES -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Homer and the Athenian Empire -- 2. Homer Outside His Poetry -- 3. Homer and His Genealogy -- 4. Homer in the Homeric Odyssey -- 5. Iliadic Multiformities -- 6. Variations onaTheme of Homer -- 7. Conflicting Claims on Homer -- 8. Homeric Variations onaTheme of Empire -- 9. Further Variations onaTheme of Homer -- 10. Homer and the Poetics of Variation -- Epilegomena. A Preclassical Text of Homer in the Making -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Homer the preclassic
• ISBN: 1-280-10216-0; 9786613520555; 0-520-95024-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810699303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sather classical lectures ; ; v. 67.