Milman Parry Simulacrum
Oral-Formulaic Theory
1902–1935
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The formula fills the metrical slot — it is not a choice but a technology of memory. I proved Homer was oral by recording living singers who worked the same way. What pattern are you mistaking for invention?
Can help you with
- Oral-Formulaic Theory
- The Composition of Homer
- Fieldwork in Yugoslavia
Others in The Homeric World
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID linguistics_parry
Part of Classics · The Homeric World.