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

Milman Parry, Adam Parry (ed)

ISBN 10: 0198141815 / ISBN 13: 9780198141815

Published by Oxford University Press, 1971

About this Item

1971, hardback in jacket, 483 pages | sound copy shows moderate general wear, some yellowing due to age; free of name, notes etc | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of Homeric Verse | The Collected Papers of Milman Parry
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198141815
• ISBN 13: 9780198141815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 453.592 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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 The Making of Homeric Verse for the first time collects these landmark works in one volume together with Parry's unpublished M.A. thesis and extracts from his Yugoslavian journal, which contains notes on Serbo-Croatian poetry and its relation to Homer.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.

About the Author

Adam Parry was the late son of the scholar Milman Parry, considered one of the leading classical scholars of this century.