Plato's rhapsody and Homer's music : the poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in classical Athens

Plato's rhapsody and Homer's music : the poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in classical Athens / by Gregory Nagy.

"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 rha...

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Main Author: Nagy, Gregory
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : A Athens, Greece : Cambridge, Mass. : Center for Hellenic Studies : Trustees for Harvard University ; Foundation of the Hellenic World ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002.
Series:Hellenic studies ; 1.
Subjects:
Homer > Literary style.
Athena > (Greek deity) > Cult > Greece > Athens.
Plato > Aesthetics.
Homer > Aesthetics.
Performing arts > Greece > Athens.
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Oral tradition > Greece.
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Transmission of texts.
Aesthetics, Ancient.
Panathenaia.
Poetics.
Athens (Greece) > Civilization.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Call Number: PA4175 .N34 2002
Status: Available

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