Plato's rhapsody and Homer's music : the poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in classical Athens / by Gregory Nagy.

Title
  1. Plato's rhapsody and Homer's music : the poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in classical Athens / by Gregory Nagy.
Published by
  1. Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies : Trustees for Harvard University ; Athens, Greece : Foundation of the Hellenic World ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002.
Author
  1. Nagy, Gregory

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Description
  1. x, 124 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
  1. "This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert - albeit a hostile one - about the cultural legacy of Homeric performances at the Panathenaia. Plato's fine-tuned ear for language - not just any language but in this case the technical language of high-class artisans like rhapsodes - picks up on a variety of authentic expressions and turns of phrase that echo the talk of rhapsodes as they once upon a time practiced their art - and even as they once upon a time spoke about this art."--Jacket.
Series statement
  1. Hellenic studies ; 1
Uniform title
  1. Hellenic studies 1.
Subject
  1. Plato > Aesthetics
  2. Homer > Aesthetics
  3. Panathenaia
  4. Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism
  5. Oral tradition > Greece
  6. Athens (Greece) > Civilization
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Homer and Plato at the Panathenaia -- Epic as music: rhapsodic models of Homer in Plato's Timaeus and Critias -- Humnos in Homer and Plato: weaving the robe of the goddess.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [103]-114) and index.
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