The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the IliadDrawing on recent studies in ethnography and sociolinguistics, Richard Martin here sets forth a poetics of Homeric speeches, which he sees not merely as poetic creations but as the representation of an actual form of speaking in a traditional culture. |
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Heroic Genres of Speaking | 43 |
Heroes as Performers | 89 |
The Language of Achilles | 146 |
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Achaeans Adam Parry adjective Agamem Agamemnon Ajax Antilokhos Athena audience battle boasts Book 9 character characterization commands context contrast conventional criticism described diction Diomedes direct divine epea epic epos example expansion expression fight flyting flyting speeches genre of discourse Glaukos gnomic gods Greek Hektor Hera Herakles hero heroic Homeric poetry Idomeneus Iliad important insult Kalkhas khrē language of Achilles meaning memory Menelaos metrical Milman Parry muthos myth Nagy narrative narrator neikos Nestor notion noun occurs Odysseus oral Parry's Patroklos patterns Peleus performance persuasion Phoinix phrase poem poet poet's poetic praise Priam rebuke recall recollection reference repetition rhetoric role Sarpedon scene semantics sense shows similar social speak speaker speech-act strategy style stylistic technique tells theme Thersites Thetis threat tion traditional Trojans Troy utterance verb verbal winged words word muthos Zeus δέ καὶ μοι οὐδ τε τί ὡς