The Descent of Milman: A Darwinian Reading of Parry on the Homeric Formula
The opposition of synchrony to diachrony represents a false dichotomy for understanding Parry’s work, for, like Darwin before him, he sought to reconstruct from the present state of the evidence historical developments (in his case the oral, formulaic style). Since no pre-Homeric Greek was known t...
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History of Classical Scholarship
2024-02-01
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| Online Access: | https://hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.php/hcs/article/view/94 |