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By Gregory Nagy
Nagy demanding situations the commonly held view that the improvement of lyric poetry in Greece represents the increase of person innovation over collective culture. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a convention in its personal correct, Nagy exhibits how the shape of Greek epic is in truth a differentiation of varieties present in Greek lyric. all through, he steadily broadens the definition of lyric to the purpose the place it turns into the foundation for outlining epic, instead of the opposite direction round.
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3 It is just as romantic, however, for latter-day critics to attribute the evidence of artistry in Homeric poetry to a genius who is emancipated from oral tradition. Such an attitude is reminiscent of Chateaubriand's notion of "mother-geniuses" (génies mères), as dissected by M. M. Bakhtin. 4 �2. The other influential stance that I challenged in Best of the Achaeans is a general reluctance to recognize artistic values that belonged only to the ancient Greeks and no longer to us. This attitude presumes that we are the heirs to everything of theirs that qualifies as artistic and sophisticated, and whatever fails to match our own criteria of these qualities is more "primitive" and therefore less sophisticated.
1) to agônes 'contests' (agônizesthai) in the public performance of "Homer's words" by rhapsôidoi 'rhapsodes' in the city-state of Sikyon, which were banned under the reign of the tyrant Kleisthenes. 4 �11. 33-35 C 645; Contest of Homer and Hesiod, p. 13-15 Allen). 1-3). �12. 9-18 Drachmann) also specify that rhapsodes such as Kynaithos of Chios, credited with the final form of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, could no longer trace themselves to Homer. In other words the tradition continued by Kynaithos is here being discredited by the sources as no longer authorized by the Homeridai.
8§46n3. �5n3. For other views on such questions, cf. 30n64, with reference to Peabody 1975. �6n1. Cf. 6§52 and following. �6n2. Cf. 11§27. �11n1. 137-144. 64 distinguishes as definition and etymology. �11n2. 41-45, 55-56. In the present work I have tried to answer some interesting points raised by Cantilena, pp. 42-43n30. �12n1. 47; also Jakobson 1939. 122 and n2 (thanks to H. Pelliccia). For further updating on the semantic applications of the terms marked and unmarked, with bibliography, I recommend Waugh 1982.