Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry by Robert Kanigel

Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry

Robert Kanigel

352 pages hardcover

2 editions

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The first full biography of the Darwin of Homeric Studies--arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century--who overturned the long entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and expanded the very idea of literature. In the...

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