Evolution of Homeric poems and Homeric Greek; Homeric Greek and why it is the way it is; the Alexandrian editors

Assigned reading:

• Chapter 2 of Gregory Nagy, Homeric Questions
• Recapturing a Homeric Legacy, ed. Dué, CHS and Harvard UP, 2009; chapter 2: Casey Dué “Epea Pteroenta: How We Came to Have our Iliad” [PDF on Sakai site under “Resources”: “Seminar Readings”]