The best of the achaeans concepts of the hero in archaic greek poetry nagy prof gregory isbn 9780801860157 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Gregory nagy the best of the achaeans concepts of the hero in archaic greek poetry acknowledgments foreword to the 1999 second edition introduction a word on assumptions methods results part i demodokos odyssey iliad 1 the first song of demodokos 2 the best of the achaeans 3 a conflict between odysseus and achilles in the iliad 4. The best of the achaeans concepts of the hero in archaic greek poetry by gregory nagy baltimore and london johns hopkins university press 1979 pp xvi 392 in his earlier modestly titled comparative studies in greek and indic meter cambridge mass 1974 nagy dealt with the relationshp between the metre and diction of the greek and indic oral epic tradi tions using the . Despite widespread interest in the greek hero as a cult figure little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry the first edition of the best of the achaeans bridged that gap raising new questions about what could be known or conjectured about greek heroes in this revised edition which features a new preface by the author . The best of the achaeans concepts of the hero in archaic greek poetry francis jones professor of classical literature and professor of comparative literature director center for hellenic studies gregory nagy gregory nagy snippet view 1979