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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE, but what about Homeric texts prior to the emergenc
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-10 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwide oral tra
Postoral Homer
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"Milman Parry's comparative study of Homer and Southslavic oral song had demonstrated the existence of an oral tradition behind and within the Homeric Epic, thu
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Written Voices, Spoken Signs is a stimulating introduction to new perspectives on Homer and other traditional epics. Taking advantage of recent research on lang