Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Pindar's Homer Challenges the view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric.
Full description- Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 19 March 1994
- Format: Paperback 540 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- ISBN 13: 9780801848476 ISBN 10: 0801848474
- Sales rank: 1,349,665
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Full description for Pindar's Homer
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. (Criticism)
