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Homer's Winged Words - The Evolution of Early Greek Epic Diction in the Light of Oral Theory (Hardcover)
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Homer's Winged Words - The Evolution of Early Greek Epic Diction in the Light of Oral Theory (Hardcover)
Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements, 313
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For over 2500 years many of the most learned scholars of the Greek
language have concerned themselves with the topic of etymology. The
most productive source of difficult, even inexplicable, words was
Homer's 28,000 verses of epic poetry. Steve Reece proposes an
approach to elucidating the meanings of some of these difficult
words that finds its inspiration primarily in Milman Parry's
oral-formulaic theory. He proposes that during the long period of
oral transmission acoustic uncertainties, especially regarding word
boundaries, were continually occurring: a bard uttered one
collocation of words, but his audience thought it heard another.
The consequent resegmentation of words and phrases is the probable
cause of some of the etymologically inexplicable words in our
Homeric texts.
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