IN THE 1930s a young assistant professor of classics at Harvard University, Milman Parry, combed the mountains and valleys of Yugoslavia in search of epic songs. Several districts of that country were ...
As recently as 1980, when I was living in a small village in Greece, I heard the oral tradition at work. A great keening of women erupted in the house across the dirt road, informing me that my ...
Very much the same was it with those Rabbinical schools amid which the Talmud gradually grew up. All of that vast literature, exceeding many times in bulk Homer and the Vedas and the Bible all ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Robert Cioffi HEARING HOMER’S SONG The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry By Robert Kanigel ...
Adam Kirsch, in his essay on the classicist Milman Parry’s studies of Homer, is too quick to conclude that the Iliad and the Odyssey were produced by the oral tradition rather than created by ...
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