Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond by Gregory Nagy

Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond

Gregory Nagy

268 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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. I...

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