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Authors: Gregory Nagy
ISBN-13: 9780801848476, ISBN-10: 0801848474
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: March 1994
Edition: Softshell Books Edition
Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. (Criticism)