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Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens

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Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens - Nagy, Gregory
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This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these Homeric performances. Plato's fine ear for language--in this case the technical language of high-class artisans like rhapsodes--picks up on a variety of authentic expressions that echo the talk of rhapsodes as they once practiced their art.

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Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens 2002, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674009639

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