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Ancient Miletus
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Ionian Dodecapolis
Literary History of Homeric Poetry
Panionic Festival
Significance of Chariot Racing in Homeric Epic
Structure and Performance of Homeric Poetry
Twins in Greek Mythology
Twins in Indo-European myth
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- ISBN 9780674305540
- Dimensions: 146 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Hippota Nestor and Beyond: Selected Essays, 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 Iliad and Odyssey 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 noos, “mind”; the Phaeacians in the Odyssey 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 hippota Nestor, “the horseman Nestor,” in light of the invention of the chariot in the Russian steppes c. 2000 BCE.
Douglas Frame was Associate Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University and a teacher of Greek and Latin languages and literature.
