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- ISBN
- 9780801419850
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801419859
ISBN-13
9780801419850
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1366210
Product Key Features
Book Title
Greek Mythology and Poetics
Number of Pages
382 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Folklore & Mythology, Poetry, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
1990
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Book Series
Myth and Poetics Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
89-017447
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
In this extremely rich volume, the Harvard classicist G. Nagy examines various facets of the Hellenizaton of Indo-European poetics, myth and ritual, and social ideology., Gregory Nagy is the most influential--and controversial--American classicist of his generation. This volume, while incorporating his most important essays, promises in addition to offer a unified statement of Nagy's methods and approaches, the main intellectual foci which guide his work, as well as examples of the application of his methodologies to a wide range of materials and problems.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
881/.0109
Synopsis
Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particular the forces of interaction and change that transformed the Indo-European linguistic and cultural heritage into distinctly Greek social institutions between the eighth and the fifth centuries B.C. Included in the volume are thirteen of Nagy's major essays--all extensively revised for book publication--on various aspects of the Hellenization of Indo-European poetics, myth and ritual, and social ideology. The primary aim of this book is to examine the Greek language as a reflection of society, with special attention to its function as a vehicle for transmitting mythology and poetics. Nagy's emphasis on the language of the Greeks, and on its comparison with the testimony of related Indo-European languages such as Latin, Indic, and Hittite, reflects his long-standing interest in Indo-European linguistics. The individual chapters examine the development of Hellenic poetics in the traditions of Homer and Hesiod; the Hellenization of Indo-European myths and rituals, including myths of the afterlife, rituals of fire, and symbols in the Greek lyric; and the Hellenization of Indo-European social ideology, with reference to such cultural institutions as the concept of the city-state. A path-breaking application of the principles of social anthropology, comparative mythology, historical linguistics, and oral poetry theory to the study of classics, Greek Mythology and Poetics will be an invaluable resource for classicists and other scholars of linguistics and literary theory., Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particular the forces of interaction and change that transformed the Indo-European linguistic and cultural heritage...
LC Classification Number
PA3015.R4N34 1990
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