Title Homer and the oral tradition / G. S. Kirk

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1976 ©1976

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Description viii, 222 pages ; 23 cm Contents Preface; 1. Homer: the meaning of an oral tradition; 2. Dark Age and oral poet; 3. War and the warrior in the Homeric poems; 4. The oral and the literary epic; 5. Homer and modern oral poetry: some confusions; 6. Homer's Iliad and ours; 7. Verse-structure and sentence-structure in Homer; 8. Formular language and oral quality; 9. The search for the real Homer; Index Analysis Epic poetry in Greek Homer related to folk poetry Folk poetry related to epic poetry of Homer Notes Includes indexes, page 219-223 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Homer -- Criticism and interpretation -- Collected works Homer -- Criticism and interpretation. Homer -- Technique. Homer. Iliad. Epic poetry -- History and criticism -- Collected works Epic poetry -- History and criticism. Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism. Oral-formulaic analysis. Oral tradition. Oral tradition -- Greece. Rhetoric, Ancient. LC no. 76007806 ISBN 0521213096

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