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Book SynopsisIn 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 text
Trade Review. . . the latest in [Nagy’s] series of brilliant and provocative works that open up new vistas in Homeric studies. . . . Informed and creative, wide-ranging and profound, this book stands at the cutting edge of Homeric scholarship and reminds readers why its author is one of the foremost classical scholars in the world today. * Choice *
Nagy performs a valuable service, in the current climate of Homeric studies, simply by reminding us once again, and forcefully, that the relationship between our written texts of Greek epic and their oral origins is a problematic one. * Southern Humanities Review *
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Homer and Questions of Oral Poetry
- Chapter 2: An Evolutionary Model for the Making of Homeric Poetry
- Chapter 3: Homer and the Evolution of a Homeric Text
- Chapter 4: Myth as Exemplum in Homer
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
