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 missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography classics history literary
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...