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  Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens (Hellenic Studies) (Hardback) By (author) Gregory Nagy

  

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  Short Description for Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, was the setting for the Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by professional reciters or "rhapsodes". This text examines the testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these performances.
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  • Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 30 December 2002
  • Format: Hardback 150 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets | Plays, Playscripts | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets | Cultural Studies
  • ISBN 13: 9780674009639 ISBN 10: 0674009630
  • Sales rank: 600,745

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Full description for Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music

• The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens every summer to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, Athena, was the setting for performances of the Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by professional reciters or "rhapsodes". The works of Plato are our main surviving source of information about these performances. Through his references, a crucial phase in the history of the Homeric tradition can be reconstructed. Through Plato's eyes, the "staging" of Homer in classical Athens can once again becomed