This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature ISBN 0-8153-3681-0]. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: reference@routledge-ny.com.
This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most infl...
The Homeric Iliad and Odyssey are among the world's foremost epics. Yet, millennia after their composition, basic questions remain about them. Who was Homer--a real or an ideal poet? When were the poems composed--at a single point in time, or over centuries of composition and performance? And how were the poems committed to writing? These uncertainties have been known as The Homeric Question, and many scholars, including Gregory Nagy, have sought to solve it.
In Homeric Responses, Nagy presents a series of essays that further elaborate his...
The Homeric Iliad and Odyssey are among the world's foremost epics. Yet, millennia after their composition, basic questio...
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 the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival Homers and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Accurate in their linguistic detail and surprising in their implications, Nagy's insights conjure the Greeks' nostalgia for the imagined epic space of Troy and for the resonances and distortions...
Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when they...
