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The Best of the Achaeans, Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry

The Best of the Achaeans, Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry

by Gregory Nagy

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 400 PAGES

Gregory Nagy explores the occult and status of the hero in Hellenic civilization and poetry. The book is a scholarly guide to reading the Iliad and the Odyssey, and related ancient Greek poetry. Originally published in 1979 and revised in 1999.  (GRE128, $28.00)


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