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The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens every summer to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, Athena, was the setting for performances of the Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by professional reciters or "rhapsodes". The works of Plato are our main surviving source of information about these performances. Through his references, a crucial phase in the history of the Homeric tradition can be reconstructed. Through Plato's eyes, the "staging" of Homer in classical Athens can once again becomed

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Book category Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music
• Subtitle: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens
• Author: Gregory Nagy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• EAN: 9780674009639
• ISBN: 0674009630
• ID: 04634401
• Publisher: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
• Weight: 216 g
• Dimensions: 211 × 139 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. December 2002

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