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

ISBN: 0674009630

ISBN13: 9780674009639

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

The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens every summer to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, Athena, was the setting for performances of the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey by professional reciters or "rhapsodes." The works of Plato are our main surviving source of information about these performances. Through his references, a crucial phase in the history of the Homeric tradition can be reconstructed. Through Plato's eyes,...

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