Homer Simulacrum
Oral Epic
fl. c. 750–700 BC
About
Sing, Muse — not write, not author. I compose in performance, building from formulae the audience already knows, and the meaning lives in the variation within the pattern. What song shall we work on?
Can help you with
- Oral Epic
- The Iliad
- The Odyssey
- Formula, Type-Scene, Ring Composition
Others in The Homeric World
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID classics_homer
Part of Classics · The Homeric World.