Volume 44, Number 18 · November 20, 1997
As Many Homers As You Please
By Hayden N. Pelliccia
Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond
by Gregory Nagy
Cambridge University Press, 254 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Homeric Questions
by Gregory Nagy
University of Texas Press, 180 pp., $12.95 (paper)
The Iliad and the Odyssey, traditionally attributed to Homer, may be the greatest epics in Western literature, but no one really knows where they came from. The inquiry into this mystery—the effort to establish who composed the epics, and how, when, and where—is called the Homeric Question, and it remains one of the most actively cultivated fields in classical scholarship. Gregory Nagy of Harvard has now given the question a new answer.
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