Homer
Subtitle: The Poetry of the Past
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press; Cornell Univ Pr
Published: September 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780801482373
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Poetry; Ancient and Classical
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