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By Gregory Nagy
The Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" are one of the world's preferable epics. but, millennia after their composition, simple questions stay approximately them. Who used to be Homer - a true or an awesome poet? whilst have been the poems composed - at a unmarried cut-off date, or over centuries of composition and function? and the way have been the poems devoted to writing? those uncertainties were often called The Homeric query, and plenty of students, together with Gregory Nagy, have sought to resolve it.In "Homeric Responses", Nagy provides a sequence of essays that additional problematic his theories concerning the oral composition and evolution of the Homeric epics. development on his earlier paintings in "Homeric Questions" and "Poetry as functionality: Homer and past" and responding to a couple of his critics, he examines such concerns because the value of functionality and the interplay among viewers and poet in shaping the poetry; the function of the rhapsode (the performer of the poems) within the composition and transmission of the poetry; the 'irreversible errors' and cross-references within the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" as evidences of creative creativity; and the Iliadic description of the guard of Achilles as a pointer to the realm outdoor the poem, the polis of the viewers.
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It is from a diachronic as well as synchronic perspective that I find it useful to consider the phenomenon of Homeric cross-references, especially long-distance ones that happen to reach for hundreds or even thousands of verses: it is important to keep in mind that any such cross-reference that we admire in our two-dimensional text did not just happen one time in one performance, but presumably countless times in countless reperformances within the three-dimensional continuum of a specialized oral tradition.
36 The responsive mentality of speakers in Homeric song extends ultimately to Homer himself, who becomes reenacted again and again in the traditions of rhapsodic performance. 33. 34. 35. 36. Koller 1957:101. : 102. This point is argued most effectively by Martin (1989; see esp. pp. 231–239). Martin 1989:220 –230. Chapter 2 Homeric Rhapsodes and the Concept of Diachronic Skewing Throughout this book, I maintain that the traditions of rhapsodic performance are essential for understanding the evolution of Homeric composition.
42 Homeric Responses stringed instrument called the phorminx.