Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens

ISBN-13: 9780674009639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 136 str.

Gregory Nagy

Opis

The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens every summer to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, Athena, was the setting for performances of the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey by professional reciters or rhapsodes. The works of Plato are our main surviving source of information about these performances. Through his references, a crucial phase in the history of the Homeric tradition can be reconstructed. Through Plato's eyes, the staging of Homer in classical Athens can once again becomed