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Homeric Questions
Homeric Questions

Homeric Questions

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Gregory Nagy (Author)  

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Book 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. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning -No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Gregory Nagy is Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Greek Mythology and Poetics and Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond.
  • Contributor: Gregory Nagy
  • Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • ISBN13: 9780292755628
  • Number of Pages: 192
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x15mm
  • Packaged Weight: 595
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Release Date: 1996-07-01
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Gregory Nagy is Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Greek Mythology and Poetics and Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond.

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