Homer's Traditional Art.(Review)

FOLEY, JOHN MILES. Homer's Traditional Art. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xviii + 363 pages. Appendices, bibliography, index, and index locorum. Cloth US$48.50; ISBN 0-271-01870-4.

Readers of Foley's article "Oral poetry" in the latest volume of the Enzyklopadie des Marchens (EM, Vol. 10, 2000) know about the author's standing as one of the most proficient scholars of the Homeric question. He is able to quote about twenty larger publications of his own concerning his field. Foley, who is the founding editor of the periodical Oral ...

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