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Homer and the Ancient Greek Paideia

by Alban Pope
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798235564534
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Colloquium Verlag
  • Publisher Imprint: Colloquium Verlag
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 146
  • Original Price: GBP 11.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 177 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / Greece

Homer stands at the beginning of the Greek imagination, not simply as a poet but as the architect of a cultural universe that shaped centuries of ethical, intellectual, and civic development. To speak of Greek paideia-the formation of character, intellect, and citizenship-is to speak of Homer, because no other body of literature so thoroughly permeated the educational, moral, and political life of the ancient Greeks. The Iliad and the Odyssey were not merely poems to be admired; they were texts to be inhabited, memorized, debated, imitated, and contested. They provided the Greeks with a shared vocabulary of values, a repertoire of exemplary figures, and a narrative framework through which to understand the human condition. In this sense, Homer was not only the earliest poet but the earliest teacher, the one whose verses became the matrix of Greek identity.

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