Orality, textuality, and the homeric epics : an interdisciplinary study of oral texts, dictated, and wild texts /

Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE, but what about Homeric texts prior to the emergence of standardized written texts? Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics sheds light on that earlier history by drawing on scholarship fr...

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Main Author: Ready, Jonathan L., 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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