Homeric Questions

by Gregory Nagy

Book Overview

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

The "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history? Or does the name "Homer" hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period of oral composition and transmission?

In this innovative investigation, Gregory Nagy applies the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292755627
• ISBN13: 9780292755628
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"