Modern Greek 5. Modern Greek Literature and Culture 6. History Religion and Ritual 6. Pedagogy 5. Teaching and Learning Technologies 1. Classical Philology Prose 4. Poetry Text and Transmission. Epigraphy 2 Textual Criticism 1. Works on the basis of close reading of selected short texts, and works extremely well.
Has been tremendously insightful and revelatory for me, and as a theme a great way into reading more closely some of the key texts of the Greeks.
Aug 23, Tim Smith rated it it was amazing. I like this book. I like it a lot. It's all here. Aug 29, iv ariel rated it really liked it. Other than the bit where Plato's Socrates is having dialogue with Achilles in his own special way, this companion to the course, Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, offers some moments of insight, additional resource information and includes some core vocabulary of key Greek words.
Professor Nagy breaking down the etymology of the Homeric Greek in the focus passages and texts, elucidating and expanding on why and how certain words are translated as such, is absolutely fascinating to me. Yes I nerded Other than the bit where Plato's Socrates is having dialogue with Achilles in his own special way, this companion to the course, Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, offers some moments of insight, additional resource information and includes some core vocabulary of key Greek words.
Yes I nerded out. I stan word detectives. All in all decent, though I'd scratched my head a few times, especially trying to figure out why Thetis' golden amphora is somehow implicitly related to Achilles' immortalization.
That being said, I adore Professor Nagy who is a joyous, indefatigable wellspring of Classical knowledge that we are lucky to have in our lifetime! Sep 16, Pam rated it it was amazing. It was incredibly informative and in-depth yet understandable a huge plus for a novice like me! I feel fortunate to have come across this class, and by extension, this book. A truly epic experience! May 05, Peter Olofsson added it. Great companion to the Iliady and Odyssey. Dec 18, Alvaro de Menard rated it did not like it.
It's incredibly overlong. Filled with padding, irrelevant fluff, and repetitions. Quite disorganized as well, often the title of a chapter has the slightest of relations to its content.
It's badly written. Here's a typical paragraph: I now highlight the critical moment in the narration of the speaker when he in turn highlights the critical moment in the apobatic competition that he is narrating. Instead of losing his nerve, our athlete somehow managed to surpass the momentum of the oncoming chariot team that almost ran over him. I now quote the original Greek text of that climactic moment. What happened here? Did the editor fall asleep? This goes on and on for seven hundred pages!
A lot of the readings are not really supported by the texts, and even if they could be supported they wouldn't be that interesting. A lot of long, convoluted, unconvincing arguments about shit that doesn't matter. Here you have a poem about life and death, mortality and immortality, war and peace, family and comradeship.
Grand themes, grand gestures. And the best thing he can come up with is jumping off chariots? As a result of the focus on bizarre minutiae, you're not actually going to have a solid grasp on the ancient Greek hero after reading this. Nagy loves etymology too much. A lot of genetic arguments. At some points treats the "epic tradition" as if it's set in stone, at other points bases his arguments on different versions of the same stories.
Switches depending on what is useful for the particular point he's arguing for. Filled with non sequitors. My notes are riddled with "???? I'm super skeptical of this approach. No attempt to argue for intertextuality or any other justification. Nagy even makes up imaginary versions of the Iliad to support his ideas. The notion that perhaps there may have been different attitudes about the issue does not appear in this book. He switches effortlessly between Homer and Herodotus, as if these guys separated by years are speaking about the exact same thing.
Never mentions that hero cults arose without a tholos, e. Achilles cults all over Greece and its colonies. His reading undermines everything that's good about the Iliad! In a poem whose central theme and question is mortality, Nagy only sees a poem about continued life after death.
At some point he posits mid-6th century additions to the Iliad, with the flimsiest of arguments. He plunders from others, e. Nietzsche without a hint of attribution. In Greek tradition, a hero was a human, male or female, of the remote past, who was endowed with superhuman abilities by virtue… Read more.
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