Abstract

In her first two books, L'invention d'Athènes and Les enfants d'Athéna, Nicole Loraux pays small attention to Homeric poetry. It is only at the beginnings of the eighties, that Homer will become a main point of Loraux' s researches, mainly in her inquiry on stasis as a political principle of the democratic city, or in her remarks on amnesty. Stimulated by the works of the American school on Homer, Nicole' Loraux not only helped to introduce them in France but developed, after them, a strong analysis of the subtle relationships between poetics and politics in Ancient Greece, a theory that will appear essential for the Homerists of everywhere.

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