HELLENIC STUDIES SERIES
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Hellenic Studies Series 1

Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music

The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens

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$16.95 • £14.95 • €15.95

ISBN 9780674009639

Publication Date: 12/30/2002

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136 pages

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  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Homer and Plato at the Panathenaia
  • Chapter 2. Epic as Music: Rhapsodic Models of Homer in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias
  • Chapter 3. Humnos in Homer and Plato: Weaving the Robe of the Goddess
  • Appendix. Rhapsodes and Actors
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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