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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 ...
As Homer remains an indispensable figure in the canons of world literature, interpreting the Homeric text is a challenging and high stakes enterprise....
The Homeric Iliad and Odyssey are among the world's foremost epics. Yet, millennia after their composition, basic questions remain about them. Who was...
Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayal...
Homer and Beyond
To understand the emergence of Homeric poetry as an actual written text, it is essential to trace the history of Homeric performance, from the very be...
Discusses the oral tradition as a theory of literary composition and its applications to Homeric and medieval epic....
Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particu...
This book is about the reception of Homeric poetry from the fifth through the first century BCE. The aim of this book, which centers on ancient concep...
The Lyric Possession of An Epic Past
Throughout, he progressively broadens the definition of lyric to the point where it becomes the basis for defining epic, rather than the other way aro...
What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. ...
View a video of Professor Greg Nagy leading discussion and commentary on one of the greatest epics of all time: The "Iliad""...
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 t...
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The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens
This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these Homeric performances. Plato's fine ear for language-...
From Ancient Greek Times to Now
Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of something unfamilar for something famil...
Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry centers on masterpieces of ancient Greek literature, from the Iliad and Odyssey to tragedies from the Classical...