Janko, R;
(1998)
The Homeric poems as oral dictated texts.
Classical Quarterly
, 48
(1)
1 - 13.
10.1093/cq/48.1.1.
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Abstract
The more I understand the Southslavic poetry and the nature of the unity of the oral poem, the clearer it seems to me that the Iliad and the Odyssey are very exactly, as we have them, each one of them the rounded and finished work of a single singer…. I even figure to myself, just now, the moment when the author of the Odyssey sat and dictated his song, while another, with writing materials, wrote it down verse by verse, even in the way that our singers sit in the immobility of their thought, watching the motion of Nikola's hand across the empty page, when it will tell them it is the instant for them to speak the next verse.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Homeric poems as oral dictated texts |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/cq/48.1.1 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cq/48.1.1 |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/173855 |
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