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Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond - Softcover

Nagy, Gregory

 
9780521558488: Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond

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This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures.

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With Homeric poetry, it is argued that no single definitive text could evolve until the oral traditions in which the epic was grounded became obsolete. In the watershed era of Aristarchus, around 150 BC, the gradual movement from relatively more fluid to more rigid stages of Homeric transmission reached a near-final point of textualization.

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