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Plato's rhapsody and Homer's music : the poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in classical Athens / by Gregory Nagy.
- Title
- Plato's rhapsody and Homer's music : the poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in classical Athens / by Gregory Nagy.
- Author
- Nagy, Gregory
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies : Trustees for Harvard University ; Athens, Greece : Foundation of the Hellenic World ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002.
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Details
- Description
- x, 124 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert - albeit a hostile one - about the cultural legacy of Homeric performances at the Panathenaia. Plato's fine-tuned ear for language - not just any language but in this case the technical language of high-class artisans like rhapsodes - picks up on a variety of authentic expressions and turns of phrase that echo the talk of rhapsodes as they once upon a time practiced their art - and even as they once upon a time spoke about this art."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Hellenic studies ; 1
- Uniform Title
- Hellenic studies 1.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [103]-114) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Homer and Plato at the Panathenaia -- Epic as music: rhapsodic models of Homer in Plato's Timaeus and Critias -- Humnos in Homer and Plato: weaving the robe of the goddess.
- ISBN
- 0674009630 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2002025737
- OCLC
- 49495162
- SCSB-10529753
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library