Plato’s Rhapsody and Homer’s Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens

Abstract

The first edition of this book, a printed version, was published in 2002 by the Center for Hellenic Studies; that printed version has been replaced by a corrected online version, http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_Nagy.Platos_Rhapsody_and_Homers_Music.2002. And that online version is now replaced here by this new online version, which is in effect a second edition, to be listed as Nagy 2020 in bibliographies: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_Nagy.Platos_Rhapsody_and_Homers_Music.2020. This second edition, launched 2020.07.03 in Classical Inquiries, makes it possible to add annotations to my online text—annotations that can be viewed as a form of open peer review. That is to say, the text of this second edition of Plato’s Rhapsody can be annotated by contributors who are invited to make comments on my argumentation. The procedures of annotating, in which I too hope to participate by occasionally making my own additional annotations to my text, can be set by the editorial team of Classical Inquiries. In this second edition, the page-numbers of the first edition are indicated within braces (for example, “{3|4}” indicates the break between pages 3 and 4). This way, the numbering of the pages and footnotes as found in-the original printed text can be retained. Also retained in this new online version is the old bibliography of the first edition, supplemented by new entries arising from new bibliography as noted in the annotations.