The Language of Heroes by Richard P. Martin
The Language of Heroes

Richard P. Martin

The Language of Heroes

Richard P. Martin

288 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

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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 cult...

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