Homer's Text and Language

by Gregory Nagy

As Homer remains an indispensable figure in the canons of world literature, interpreting the Homeric text is a challenging and high stakes enterprise. There are untold numbers of variations, imitations, alternate translations, and adaptations of the Iliad and Odyssey, making it difficult to establish what, exactly, the epics were. Gregory Nagy's essays have one central aim: to show how the text and language of Homer derive from an oral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252029836
• ISBN13: 9780252029837
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"