Research Catalog

Title

Homer the classic / by Gregory Nagy.

Author

Nagy, Gregory

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Details

Description

vii, [1], 641 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Homer the Classic is about the reception of Homeric poetry from the fifth through the first century BCE. The study of this reception is important for understanding not only the all-pervasive literary influence of ancient Greek epic traditions but also the various ways in which these traditions were used by individuals and states to promote their own cultural and political agenda. The aim of this book, which centers on ancient concepts of Homer as the author of a body of poetry that we know as the Iliad and the Odyssey, is not to reassess the oral poetic heritage of Homeric poetry but to show how it became a classic in the days of the Athenian empire and later. This volume is one of two books stemming from six Sather Classical Lectures given in the spring semester of 2002 at the University of California at Berkeley while the author was teaching there as the Sather Professor.

Series Statement

Hellenic studies series ; 36

Uniform Title

Hellenic studies 36.

Subject

• Homer > Criticism and interpretation
• Geschichte 460 v. Chr.-19 v. Chr
• Geschichte 460 v. Chr-19 v. Chr
• Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism
• Oral tradition > Greece

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Homer the classic in the age of Virgil -- Homer the classic in the age of Callimachus -- Homer the classic in the age of Plato -- Homer the classic in the age of Pheidias.

ISBN

• 9780674033269
• 0674033264

LCCN

^^2009034885

OCLC

• 319209703
• SCSB-10922944

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library