Overview
This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece. It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance. It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines the efforts of ancient scholars to edit a definitive text of the "real" Homer.
- | Author: Gregory Nagy
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 26, 1996
- | Number of Pages: 268 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521558484
- | ISBN-13: 9780521558488
