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This evidence suggests that the written texts emerged from an evolutionary process in which composition, performance, and diffusion interacted to create the epics we know as the Iliad and the Odyssey. Sure to challenge orthodox views and provoke lively debate, Nagy's book will be essential reading for all students of oral traditions.
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In this book, the latest in his series of brilliant and provocative works that open up new vistas in Homeric studies (e.g., The Best of the Achaeans, 1979, and Poetry as Performance, CH, Feb'97), Nagy (Harvard Univ.) at one point distills several points into one: "The essence of performing song and poetry" is "the primary question." Drawing on the disciplinary perspectives of linguistics and anthropology as well as the groundbreaking work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, the author examines the performative aspect of oral traditional poetry. The body of the work consists of four chapters: the first defines important terms and clarifies common, but misleading, usages; the second uses comparative data from the living traditions of other cultures to develop an evolutionary model for Homeric poetry; the third part seeks to explain the evolution of the Homeric text; the last chapter considers mythological exempla in the context of tradition and change. The introduction and epilogue include passionate appeals to classicists for tolerance and respect of other perspectives in philological investigations. An extensive bibliography and general index complete the work. 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. Recommended for all college and university libraries. J. C. Brown Hartwick College
目录
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 |