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268 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521558488
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 26 January 1996
Description
This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece. I...
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268 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521558488
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 26 January 1996
Description
This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece. I...