Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours

Name: Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
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ISBN: 9780674073401

ISBN-10: 0674073401

ISBN-13: 9780674073401

Edition: 2013

Authors: Gregory Nagy

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The ancient Greeks’ concept of “the hero” was very different from what we understand by the term today, Gregory Nagy argues—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,…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 7/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 752
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 2.10" tall
Weight: 3.124

Gregory Nagyis the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. This book is adapted from his 2002 Sather Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley.