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Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past by Gregory Nagy

Author:Gregory Nagy [Nagy, Gregory] , Date: June 14, 2017 ,Views: 75

Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past by Gregory Nagy

Author:Gregory Nagy [Nagy, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Homer, Ancient, General, Greek Poetry, Literary Criticism, Laudatory Poetry; Greek, Ancient & Classical, Epic Poetry; Greek, Influence (Literary; Artistic; Etc.), History
ISBN: 9780801848476
Google: OT5yAAAAIAAJ
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1990-01-02T05:00:00+00:00


houtos ho Kroisos barbarôn prôtos tôn hêmeis idmen tous men katestrepsato Hellênôn es phorou apagôgên...

Herodotus 1.6.2

This Croesus was the first barbarian ever, within our knowledge, to reduce some Hellenes to the status of paying tribute... 1

The expression tôn hêmeis idmen 'within our knowledge' picks up the earlier expression that leads to the identification of Croesus as the cause of the conflict between Hellenes and barbarians--or at least of that part of the conflict that is narrated by Herodotus:



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