The songmaking of Pindar pictures Homeric poetry at N.7.21 as a kind of logos ‘wording’ that is relative, not absolute, so that the pathā ‘experiencing’ of experiences by Odysseus at N.7.21 cannot be matched neatly by the words th ...
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Nemean 7.20-27
Gregory Nagyἐγὼ δὲ πλέον’ ἔλπομαι λόγον Ὀδυσσέος ἢ πάθαν | διὰ τὸν ἀδυεπῆ Ὅμηρον· | ἐπεὶ ψεύδεσί οἱ ποτανᾷ <τε> μαχανᾷ σεμνὸν ἔπεστί τι· σοφία δὲ | κλέπτει παράγοισα μύθοις. τυφλὸν δ’ ἔχ ... Continue reading
Nemean 7.20-23
Gregory NagyThe songmaking of Pindar pictures Homeric poetry at N.7.21 as a kind of logos ‘wording’ that is relative, not absolute, so that the pathā ‘experiencing’ of experiences by Odysseus at N.7.21 cannot be matched neatly by the words th ... Continue reading