Overview :As Homer remains an indispensable figure in the canons of world literature, interpreting the Homeric text is a challenging and high stakes e... Read More
Overview :The Homeric Question has vexed scholars for centuries. Who was Homer, when and where did he live and was there more than one author of the I... Read More
Overview :Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when they were still... Read More
Overview :Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates ... Read More
Overview :What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we ... Read More
Overview :This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of H... Read More
Overview :Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collec... Read More
Overview :In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of ... Read More
Overview :Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the... Read More
Overview :Homer the Classic is about the reception of Homeric poetry from the fifth through the first century BCE. The study of this reception is impo... Read More