Pindar's Homer

The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4847-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 867 g

Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. Throughout, he progressively broadens the definition of lyric to the point where it becomes the basis for defining epic, rather than the other way around.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nagy, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Nagy, Gregory
Gregory Nagy is Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His books include Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past, also available from Johns Hopkins.