Yamagata, Naoko
(2012). Epithets with echoes: A study on formula-narrative interaction.
In: Montanari, Franco; Rengakos, Antonios and Tsagalis, Christos C. eds.
Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry.
Trends in Classics: Supplementary Volumes (12).
Berlin, Germany & New York, USA: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 445–468.
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Abstract
This article challenges the strictest form of the Parry-Lord theory, which takes the elaborate system of stock-expressions to fill particular positions in hexameter verse to be the evidence of quasi-mechanical versification, which implies that the poet is indifferent to the meaning of such fixed epithets as ‘swift-footed’ for Achilles. By surveying the two most frequently used types of noun-epithet formulae and their ‘echoes’ throughout the Homeric texts, this article argues that the poet is conscious of the meaning of even the most fixed of the fixed epithets.
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Book Chapter
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| Copyright Holders: |
2012 The Author |
| ISBN: |
3-11-027195-8, 978-3-11-027195-9 |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > Classical Studies |
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| Item ID: |
32678 |
| Depositing User: |
Naoko Yamagata
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| Date Deposited: |
22 Feb 2012 11:50 |
| Last Modified: |
23 Oct 2012 14:18 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/32678 |
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