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Greek Mythology and Religion

The Making of Homeric Verse

The Collected Papers of Milman Parry

by Milman Parry · Adam Parry (ed.)

The collected writings of Milman Parry, including English translations of his French theses on the traditional epithet in Homer. Parry demonstrated that Homeric diction is a formulaic system created by oral poets. Adam Parry's introduction assesses his father's achievement.

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