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The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry - Softcover

Nagy, Prof Gregory

 
9780801860157: The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801860156 ISBN 13: 9780801860157
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry. The first edition of The Best of the Achaeans bridged that gap, raising new questions about what could be known or conjectured about Greek heroes. In this revised edition, which features a new preface by the author, Gregory Nagy reconsiders his conclusions in the light of the subsequent debate and resumes his discussion of the special status of heroes in ancient Greek life and poetry. His book remains an engaging introduction both to the concept of the hero in Hellenic civilization and to the poetic forms through which the hero is defined: the Iliad and Odyssey in particular and archaic Greek poetry in general.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801860156
ISBN 13 
9780801860157
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
424
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