The Language of Heroes

Speech and Performance in the Iliad

• Author(s): Richard P. Martin,
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Pages: 265
• ISBN_10: 0801423538
  ISBN_13: 9780801423536
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical , Social Science / Folklore & Mythology ,

Description:... Drawing on recent studies in ethnography and sociolinguistics, Richard Martin here sets forth a poetics of Homeric speeches, which he sees not merely as poetic creations but as the representation of an actual form of speaking in a traditional culture.