Volume one of this carefully selected collection of critical writings on Greek Literature focuses on the oral traditional background of Ancient Greek literature. The nine volume set traces the Greek roots of all major literary genres-epic, lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, history, oratory, and philosophy. With articles by noted scholars including Albert Bates Lord, Milman Parry, Diskin Clay, and Walter Burkert, this nine volume set covers Greek literature from the 6th century BC to the Byzantine era.
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Gregory Nagy is Professor of Classics at Harvard University and Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He has written and edited numerous books on Greek literature, including Homeric Questions, The Everyman's Library The Iliad, Greek Mythology and Poetics, and Poetry as Performance.
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MILMAN PARRY began his first study of Homeric style with a quotation from Ernest Renan which epitomized the method which he was later to follow so scrupulously. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oral poetic language, particular dux, silver siege rhyton, necessary enjambment, oral diction, miniature frescoes, poetic signification, initial digamma, oral dictated texts, traditional poetic language, north frieze, traditional diction, metrical value, formulaic diction, intonation units, south frieze, epic language, irreversible mistakes, dictation theory, speech introductions, oral poetry, dictation theories, oral poetics, generative view, epic performance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bronze Age, Milman Parry, West House, Cambridge University Press, New York, South Slavic, Adam Parry, Asia Minor, Dark Age, Albert Lord, Embassy Scene, Friis Johansen, Miniature Wall Paintings, Harvard University, Gregory Nagy, Old Irish, Audacht Morainn, Comparative Literature, Late Helladic, Classical Quarterly, Oxford University Press, Parry Collection, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Will of Zeus, Archaeological Reports New!
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MILMAN PARRY began his first study of Homeric style with a quotation from Ernest Renan which epitomized the method which he was later to follow so scrupulously. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oral poetic language, particular dux, silver siege rhyton, necessary enjambment, oral diction, miniature frescoes, poetic signification, initial digamma, oral dictated texts, traditional poetic language, north frieze, traditional diction, metrical value, formulaic diction, intonation units, south frieze, epic language, irreversible mistakes, dictation theory, speech introductions, oral poetry, dictation theories, oral poetics, generative view, epic performance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bronze Age, Milman Parry, West House, Cambridge University Press, New York, South Slavic, Adam Parry, Asia Minor, Dark Age, Albert Lord, Embassy Scene, Friis Johansen, Miniature Wall Paintings, Harvard University, Gregory Nagy, Old Irish, Audacht Morainn, Comparative Literature, Late Helladic, Classical Quarterly, Oxford University Press, Parry Collection, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Will of Zeus, Archaeological Reports New!
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- Iliad and Odyssey by Homer on 22 pages
- The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord on 14 pages
- Bronze Age by Robert Morgan on 9 pages
- Epic Singers and Oral Tradition (Myth and Poetics) by Albert Bates Lord on 4 pages
- Homer and Mycenae by Martin P. Nilsson on page 101, page 115, and page 156
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