Homer the Preclassic.

Homer the Preclassic.

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 perio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nagy, Gregory
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Homer > Criticism and interpretation.
Homer
To 1500
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Oral tradition > Greece > History > To 1500.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Epic poetry, Greek
Oral tradition
Greece
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; PART I.A PRECLASSICAL HOMER FROM THE DARK AGE; 1. Homer and the Athenian Empire; The Athenian Empire; Athens as Homer's Imperial Metropolis; Homer the Ionian; Homer and the Panionian Festivals of Delos and Beyond; The Performance of Epic at the Panathenaia in the Era of the Peisistratidai: The Later Years; 2. Homer Outside His Poetry; Homer in the Life of Homer Traditions; The Making of Homeric Verse in the Life of Homer Traditions; Homer the Epigrammatist; Homer's Reception in Performance.
  • Homer as a Model Performer at Panhellenic FestivalsThe Homeric Hymn to Apollo as an Aetiology of Homeric Performance at the Delia; 3. Homer and His Genealogy; The Homeridai of Chios; A Post-Athenocentric View of the Homeridai; The Performance of Epic at the Panathenaia in the Era of the Peisistratidai: The Earlier Years; The Homers of Thucydides and Herodotus; 4. Homer in the Homeric Odyssey; The Festive Poetics of an Ongoing Humnos in Odyssey viii; A Poetic Crisis at a Festival; An Agon Between Demodokos and Odysseus; 5. Iliadic Multiformities; The Transcendence of Zeus as Hymnic Subject.
  • Older and Newer Versions of the IliadAn Inventory of Epic Forms; Acephalic and Nonacephalic Prooimia; Variations on the Plan of Zeus; The Sorrows of Andromache; PART II. A PRECLASSICAL HOMER FROM THE BRONZE AGE; 6. Variations on a Theme of Homer; Rival Datings of Homer; A Pre-Athenocentric Life of Homer; An Athenocentric Life of Homer; An Aeolian Dating of Homer; Homer the Aeolian; 7. Conflicting Claims on Homer; The Tomb of Achilles and the Topography of the Troad; The Tomb of Achilles as a Landmark for the Festival of the Panathenaia; Two Tombs for Achilles; Rethinking the Trojan Past.
  • Homer the Ionian Revisited8. Homeric Variations on a Theme of Empire; Four Festivals and Four Models of Empire; A Homeric Glimpse of an Ionian Festival; An Aeolic Phase of Homer; An Attic Phase of Homer; Ionic Koine and Aeolic Koine; Homer the Aeolian Revisited; A Homeric Glimpse of an Aeolian Festival; The Festive Poetics of Federal Politics; 9. Further Variations on a Theme of Homer; Homer the Federal Hostage; Homeric Variability; The Peplos of Athena and the Poetics of Split Referencing; 10. Homer and the Poetics of Variation; The Sorrows of Andromache Revisited.
  • Pattern-weaving Back into the Bronze AgeA Final Retrospective: Andromache's Last Look at Hector; Epilegomena: A Preclassical Text of Homer in the Making; Reconstructing Homer Forward in Time; The Peisistratean Recension and Beyond; Asiatic and Helladic Receptions of Homer; A Spokesman for All Hellenes; Homer's Split Personality; A Prototype for Homer, Hesiod, and Orpheus; Homeric Koine; Homerus Auctus; Hesiod as a Contemporary of Homer; Orpheus as a Precursor of Hesiod and Homer; Orpheus as a Neoteric; Orpheus in the Era of the Peisistratidai; Selective Adjustment of Repertoire.

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