Homer the preclassic
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
- ISBN13 9780520294875
- ISBN10 0520294874
- Type BOOK
- Pages 414
- Published 2017
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
Greek Literature StudiesHomer the preclassic
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
"Highly recomended for those interested in the Homeric epics." -- Mike Caba NEASB
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.