The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry

by Adam Parry

Overview

Milman Parry, who died in 1935 while a young assistant professor at Harvard, is now considered one of the leading classical scholars of this century. Yet Parry's articles and French dissertations—highly original contributions to the study of Homer—have until now been difficult to obtain. The Making of Homeric Verse for the first time collects these landmark works in one volume together with Parry's unpublished M.A. thesis and extracts from his Yugoslavian journal, which contains notes on Serbo-Croatian poetry and its relation to Homer. Adam Parry, the late son of the scholar, has translated the French dissertations, written an introduction on the life and intellectual development of his father, and provided a survey of later work on Homer conducted in Parry's glorious tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195205602
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/19/1987
Series:	Folklore of the World Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 5.98(h) x 1.41(d)

Editorial Reviews

"Warmly recommended to all students of early epic, Greek or otherwise."—Religious Studies Review

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