The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours. - NAGY, Gr.,
KORTE INHOUD
'The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours is Gregory Nagy?s Mooc book. The massive open online course is one of the most significant developments in higher education in years and Nagy is one of the foremost Homerists of his generation, so the book deserves attention both as an academic publication and as a pedagogical experiment. (...) This is a densely packed book and one that repays slow consumption. 'The ancient Greek concept of hero,' starts Nagy, 'goes beyond the word?s ordinary levels of meaning in casual contemporary usage.' It denotes 'humans of the remote past, endowed with superhuman abilities and descended from the immortal gods themselves.' Like the gods, the heroes inspired worship. Ancient Greek communities sacrificed at the tombs of the heroes and prayed to them. They also listened to poems that exalted the great deeds of the heroes of old: the Homeric epics, but also shorter lyric compositions (for example, the songs of Sappho and Pindar). Nagy argues that myth and cult were intertwined, and at time...
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2013Uitgever: Belknap Press of Harvard University PressISBN-10: 0674073401ISBN-13: 9780674073401Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge (Mass.) / London, 2013. XVII,727p. Half cloth wrps. [New] [Auteur: NAGY, Gr.,] [Uitgever: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press] [Jaar: 2013] [Titel: The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours.]
