"More than any other classicist, Nagy tries to uncover and explain
the brilliance that can come from an oral tradition. . . . This is
an important contribution to the field of Homeric poetics, more
narrowly, and to the study of Greek literature more broadly." --
Carol Dougherty, Professor of Classical Studies, Wellesley College
The Homeric Iliad and Odyssey are among the world's foremost
epics. Yet, millennia after their composition, basic questions
remain about them. Who was Homer-- a real or an ideal poet? When
were the poems composed-- at a single point in time, or over
centuries of composition and performance? And how were the poems
committed to writing? These uncertainties have been known as The
Homeric Question, and many scholars, including Gregory Nagy, have
sought to solve it.
In Homeric Responses, Nagy presents a series of essays that
further elaborate his theories regarding the oral composition and
evolution of the Homeric epics. Building on his previous work in
Homeric Questions and Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond and
responding to some of his critics, he examines such issues as the
importance of performance and the interaction between audience and
poet in shaping the poetry; the role of the rhapsode (the performer
of the poems) in the composition and transmission of the poetry;
the "irreversible mistakes" and cross-references in the Iliad and
Odyssey as evidences of artistic creativity; and the Iliadic
description of the shield of Achilles as a pointer to the world
outside the poem, the polis of the audience.
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