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.
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"In this technical yet clear book, Nagy explores how the Homeric poems, stemming from an oral tradition that can be traced to the middle of the second millenium BCE, became the written texts of today....Rich in detail, knowledge and scope, Nagy's book (the culmination of years of work) offers a lucid, well-argued approach to these problems. It will interest not only specialists in ancient Greek poetry, but anyone concerned with oral traditions." P. Nieto, Choice
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From the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece, this comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures focuses on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium. It stresses the role of performance and performer.
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Lets us begin with a passage from epic, where the epic is representing lyric, not epic. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
girl initiand, multitext format, songmaking traditions, prosodic anomalies, hogan songs, many resoundings, rhapsodic tradition, medieval manuscript tradition, performance traditions, word mimesis, chief singer, natura animalium, troubadour traditions, courtly lyric, mutual assimilation, oral poetics, city edition, puberty ritual Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Demetrius of Phalerum, Changing Woman, State Script, Library of Alexandria, Athenian State Theater, Diogenes Laertius, Homeric Hymn, Van Sickle, Hebrew Bible, Delian Maidens, Divine Twins, Plato's Ion, White Painted Woman, Alexander the Great, Apollonius of Rhodes, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Alexandrian Homer, Aristotle Fragments, Hellenized Egypt, Achilles Tatius, Alcman's Partheneion, Athenian Homer, Feast of the Panathenaia, Hesiodic Shield, Peripatetic School New!
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Lets us begin with a passage from epic, where the epic is representing lyric, not epic. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
girl initiand, multitext format, songmaking traditions, prosodic anomalies, hogan songs, many resoundings, rhapsodic tradition, medieval manuscript tradition, performance traditions, word mimesis, chief singer, natura animalium, troubadour traditions, courtly lyric, mutual assimilation, oral poetics, city edition, puberty ritual Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Demetrius of Phalerum, Changing Woman, State Script, Library of Alexandria, Athenian State Theater, Diogenes Laertius, Homeric Hymn, Van Sickle, Hebrew Bible, Delian Maidens, Divine Twins, Plato's Ion, White Painted Woman, Alexander the Great, Apollonius of Rhodes, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Alexandrian Homer, Aristotle Fragments, Hellenized Egypt, Achilles Tatius, Alcman's Partheneion, Athenian Homer, Feast of the Panathenaia, Hesiodic Shield, Peripatetic School New!
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- Iliad and Odyssey by Homer on 6 pages
- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on 5 pages
- Ancient Greece Hb (Exploring the Past) by Neil Grant in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Documents in Mycenaean Greek by John Chadwick in Back Matter
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- The Dance of the Muses: Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics by A. P. David on page 85, and Back Matter
- Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming by Jonathan Shay in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) by Daniel Boyarin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Myth: A New Symposium by William F. Hansen on page 248, and Back Matter
- Myth: A New Symposium by Gregory Schrempp in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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