Gregory Nagy's book is brilliant, original, and filled with powerful, central, and useful insights. To read it with attention is to experience a radical revision of one's own view of early Greek poetry and of the primary themes of Greek culture. -- James Redfield, University of Chicago
Gregory Nagy is Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His books include Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past, also available from Johns Hopkins.
This is a learned, clever, and disturbing book . . . One is left
with the uneasy feeling that curtains have parted in the wind,
giving glimpses of unsuspected realities behind the apparently
simple face of Greek heroic poetry.
--M. L. West, Times Literary Supplement
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