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Listening to Homer tradition, narrative, and audience
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
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A discussion of how ancient Greek bards ensured that their poetry would reach audiences of various backgrounds
Details
- Creator
- Ruth Scodel
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009, c2002
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0472033743, 1282940341, 9780472026586, 9780472033744, 0472026585, 0472112651, 9786612940347
- OCLC
- ocn728836413, ocn698586690, ocn608503038
- 2009 ed.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- English
- 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; Works Cited; General Index; Index of Passages Cited
Subjects
- 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.
- Homer -- Criticism, Textual.
- Homer -- Technique.