Title Listening to Homer : tradition, narrative, and audience / Ruth Scodel

Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (235 pages) Contents What are we talking about when we talk about tradition? -- Textualization and the newest song -- Homeric rhetorics : traditionality and disinterest -- Homeric exposition -- Abbreviated narrative -- Narrative teases -- The social audience Summary A discussion of how ancient Greek bards ensured that their poetry would reach audiences of various backgrounds Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Homer -- Criticism, Textual Homer -- Technique SUBJECT Homer fast Subject Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Epic poetry, Greek -- Criticism, Textual Oral interpretation of poetry. Oral tradition -- Greece Oral-formulaic analysis. Transmission of texts. Narration (Rhetoric) Audiences -- Greece Rhetoric, Ancient. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical. HISTORY -- General. Audiences Epic poetry, Greek Narration (Rhetoric) Oral-formulaic analysis Oral interpretation of poetry Oral tradition Rhetoric, Ancient Technique Transmission of texts Greece Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780472026586 0472026585

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