Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: University of Texas Pre
Keywords: questions, homeric
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1996-05-29
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0292755627
ISBN-13: 9780292755628

The "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history? Or does the name "Homer" hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period of oral composition and transmission? In this innovative investigation, Gregory Nagy applies the insights of comparative linguistics and anthropology to offer a new historical model for understanding how, when, where, and why the Iliad and the Odyssey were ultimately preserved as written texts that could be handed down o

Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: responses, homeric
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0292705549
ISBN-13: 9780292705548

"More than any other classicist, Nagy tries to uncover and explain the brilliance that can come from an oral tradition. . . . This is an important contribution to the field of Homeric poetics, more narrowly, and to the study of Greek literature more broadly." --Carol Dougherty, Professor of Classical Studies, Wellesley College 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

Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: epic, past, possession, lyric, homer, pindar
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 1994-03-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0801848474
ISBN-13: 9780801848476

Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. (Criticism)

Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: homer, performance, poetry
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1996-01-26
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521558484
ISBN-13: 9780521558488

This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece. It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance. It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines the efforts of ancient scholars to edit a definitive text of the "real" Homer.

Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: greek, literature, vol, byzantine, period
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2001-12-29
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 041593771X
ISBN-13: 9780415937719

Edited with an introduction by an internationally recognized scholar, this nine-volume set represents the most exhaustive collection of essential critical writings in the field, from studies of the classic works to the history of their reception. Bringing together the articles that have shaped modern classical studies, the set covers Greek literature in all its genres--including history, poetry, prose, oratory, and philosophy--from the 6th century BC through the Byzantine era. Since the study of Greek literature encompasses the roots of all major modern humanities disciplines, the collection a

Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: poetics, amp, myth, greek, mythology
Number of Pages: 363
Published: 1992-04
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0801480485
ISBN-13: 9780801480485

Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: traditions, language, text, homer
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-10-27
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0252029836
ISBN-13: 9780252029837

As Homer remains an indispensable figure in the canons of world literature, interpreting the Homeric text is a challenging and high stakes enterprise. There are untold numbers of variations, imitations, alternate translations, and adaptations of the Iliad and Odyssey, making it difficult to establish what, exactly, the epics were. Gregory Nagy’s essays have one central aim: to show how the text and language of Homer derive from an oral poetic system. In Homeric studies, there has been an ongoing debate centering on different ways to establish the text of Homer and the different ways to a