Homer the Preclassic

Author:   Gregory Nagy ,  Chris Dadian
Publisher:   University of California Press
Volume:   67
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9780520294875


Pages:   432
Publication Date:   24 February 2017
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Author:   Gregory Nagy ,  Chris Dadian
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   67
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780520294875


ISBN 10:   0520294874
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   24 February 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Introduction Part I. A Preclassical Homer from the Dark Age 1. Homer and the Athenian Empire The Athenian Empire Athens as Homer's Imperial Metropolis Homer the Ionian Homer and the Panionian Festivals of Delos and Beyond The Performance of Epic at the Panathenaia in the Era of the Peisistratidai: The Later Years 2. Homer outside His Poetry Homer in the Life of Homer Traditions The Making of Homeric Verse in the Life of Homer Traditions Homer the Epigrammatist Homer's Reception in Performance Homer as a Model Performer at Panhellenic Festivals The Homeric Hymn to apollo as an Aetiology of Homeric Performance at the Delia 3. Homer and His Genealogy The Homeridai of Chios A Post-Athenocentric View of the Homeridai The Performance of Epic at the Panathenaia in the Era of the Peisistratidai: The Earlier Years The Homers ofThucydides and Herodotus 4. Homer in the Homeric Odyssey The Festive Poetics of an Ongoing Humnos in odyssey viii A Poetic Crisis at a Festival An agon Between Demodokos and Odysseus 5. Iliadic Multiformities The Transcendence of Zeus as Hymnic Subject Older and Newer Versions of the iliad An Inventory of Epic Forms Acephalic and Nonacephalic Prooimia Variations on the Plan of Zeus The Sorrows of Andromache Part II. A Preclassical Homer from the Bronze Age 6. Variations on a Theme of Homer Rival Datings of Homer A Pre-Athenocentric Life of Homer An Athenocentric Life of Homer An Aeolian Dating of Homer Homer the Aeolian 7. Conflicting Claims on Homer The Tomb of Achilles and the Topography of the Troad The Tomb of Achilles as a Landmark for the Festival of the Panathenaia Two Tombs for Achilles Rethinking the Trojan Past Homer the Ionian Revisited 8. Homeric Variations on a Theme of empire Four Festivals and Four Models of Empire A Homeric Glimpse of an Ionian Festival An Aeolic Phase of Homer An Attic Phase of Homer Ionic Koine and Aeolic Koine Homer the Aeolian Revisited A Homeric Glimpse of an Aeolian Festival The Festive Poetics of Federal Politics 9. Further Variations on a Theme of Homer Homer the Federal Hostage Homeric Variability The Peplos of Athena and the Poetics of Split Referencing 10. Homer and the Poetics of Variation The Sorrows of Andromache Revisited Pattern-weaving Back into the Bronze Age A Final Retrospective: Andromache's Last Look at Hector Epilegomena: a Preclassical text of Homer in the Making Reconstructing Homer Forward in Time The Peisistratean Recension and Beyond Asiatic and Helladic Receptions of Homer A Spokesman for All Hellenes Homer's Split Personality A Prototype for Homer, Hesiod, and Orpheus Homeric Koine Homerus Auctus Hesiod as a Contemporary of Homer Orpheus as a Precursor of Hesiod and Homer Orpheus as a Neoteric Orpheus in the Era of the Peisistratidai Selective Adjustment of Repertoire The Poetics and Politics of the Homerus Auctus The Shield of Achilles and the Homerus Auctus The Ideology of Cosmos and imperium in Homer?rough the Ages The Ring of Minos as a Symbol of Cosmos and imperium The Shield of Achilles as a Symbol of Cosmos and imperium Ten Centuries of Homeric Transmission Homer the Poet of Kings From Homer the Preclassic to Homer the Classic Bibliography Index Locorum

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Highly recomended for those interested in the Homeric epics. -- Mike Caba NEASB


"""Highly recomended for those interested in the Homeric epics."" -- Mike Caba NEASB"


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Gregory Nagy is the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. This book is adapted from his 2002 Sather Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley.

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