Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past by Gregory Nagy

Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past

Gregory Nagy

540 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 o...

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