Listening to Homer: Tradition, Narrative, and Audience

by Ruth Scodel

The Homeric poems were not intended for readers, but for a listening audience. Traditional in their basic elements, the stories were learned by oral poets from earlier poets and recreated at every performance. Individual nuances, tailored to the audience, could creep into the stories of the Greek heroes on each and every occasion when a bard recited the epics.
For a particular audience at a particular moment, "tradition" is what it believes it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472033743
• ISBN13: 9780472033744
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"