"Homer the Preclassic" considers the development of the Homeric
poems - in particular "The Iliad" and "Odyssey" - during the time
when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy
traces the evolution of rival 'Homers' and the different versions
of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a
time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze
Age. Accurate in their linguistic detail and surprising in their
implications, Nagy's insights conjure the Greeks' nostalgia for the
imagined 'epic space' of 'Troy' and for the resonances and
distortions this mythic past provided to the various Greek
constituencies for whom the Homeric poems were so central and
definitive.
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