Homer
Subtitle: The Poetry of the Past
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: June 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780801427008
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Novels, other prose & writers; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Poetry; Greek Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Epic poetry, Greek; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Homer
First sentence: Ideally we should not speak of "poetry" in connection with Homer at all, for it may be prejudicial to ask Homer what "poetry" is when that good Greek word is not attested before the fifth century; it seems that it was only in that enlightened critical culture that sophists and other philosophers of language began calling what Homer and his fellows did "making" (poiêsis) and the performer a "maker" (poiêtês).l