Homer and the oral tradition /

Homer and the oral tradition /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirk, G. S. (Geoffrey Stephen), 1921-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Subjects:
Homer > Technique.
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Oral tradition > Greece.
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Epic poetry in Greek > Homer > related to > folk poetry
Folk poetry > related to > epic poetry of Homer
Table of Contents:
  • Homer : the meaning of an oral tradition
  • Dark age and oral poet
  • War and the warrior in the Homeric poems
  • The oral and literary epic
  • Homer and modern oral poetry : some confusions
  • Homer's Iliad and ours
  • Verse-structure and sentence-structure in Homer
  • Formular language and oral quality
  • The search for the real Homer.

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