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题名/责任者:

The ancient Greek hero in 24 hours / Gregory Nagy.

出版发行项:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.

ISBN:

9780674241688

载体形态项:

xvi, 632 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

个人责任者:

Nagy, Gregory, author.

论题主题:

Greek literature-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Heroes in literature.

中图法分类号:

I545.06

一般附注:

Edition statement from prefatory matter.

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-611) and index.

摘要附注:

In this book based on the Harvard University course he has taught and refined since the late 1970s, Gregory Nagy argues that the ancient Greeks' concept of "the hero" was very different from what we understand by the term today--and it is only through analyzing their historical contexts that we can truly understand Achilles, Odysseus, Oedipus, and Herakles. In Greek tradition, a hero was a human, male or female, of the remote past, who was endowed with superhuman abilities by virtue of being descended from an immortal god. Despite their mortality, heroes, like the gods, were objects of cult worship. Nagy examines this distinctively religious notion of the hero in its many dimensions, in texts spanning the eighth to fourth centuries BCE: the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey; tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Eruipides; songs of Sappho and Pindar; and the dialogues of Plato. All works are presented in English translation, with attention to the subtleties of the original Greek. This is a revised paperback edition of the hardcover published in 2013.--

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