The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours What does it mean to be a hero? Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours…
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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
What does it mean to be a hero? Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today.
Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. We meet the epic heroes of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. To discover Nagy's Homer is to be twice civilized.
"Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years." --Times Literary Supplement "Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that
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