Classical Continuum Hippota Nestor and Beyond: Selected Essays, (Paperback)

In Hippota Nestor <i>and Beyond: Selected Essays, </i> Douglas Frame revisits the Homeric figure of Nestor, who he argues derives from twin figures in Indo-European myth, and dates the composition and performance of the <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i> to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE at a festival of twelve Ionian cities in Asia Minor. Frame takes up subjects such as the evidence for Nestor's Indo-European origins; the related origins of the Greek word <i>noos, </i> "mind"; the Phaeacians in the <i>Odyssey</i> as the key to the circumstances in which the Homeric poems were created; Nestor's role connecting the two poems into a one whole. Other essays in the collect break new ground with respect to the circumstances of the poems' performance; the purpose of the poems in their historical setting; the relation of the poems to other poetic monuments of the time; the reception of the poems in the Greek mainland after their origin in Ionia; and a closer tracking of the Indo-European origins of the figure <i>hippota Nestor, </i> "the horseman Nestor," in light of the invention of the chariot in the Russian steppes c. 2000 BCE.

• Classical Continuum Hippota Nestor and Beyond: Selected Essays, (Paperback)
• Author: Associate Director Douglas Frame
• ISBN: 9780674305540
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-11-10
• Page Count: 290