Milman Parry
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Tip o’ the pileus to Ian Spoor for alerting me to this one which is coming up on BBC4: Episode Six of a thirty-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. In 1933, a young classics scholar called Milman Parry made a journey through the hill villages of the Balkans to record…
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The Center for Hellenic Studies is marking the centennial of Albert Lord’s birth with a collection of online resources related to his work. Here’s the introductory blurb from Gregory Nagy: As one of Albert Lord’s former students, it gives me great pleasure to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth on Sept. 15, 1912. As…
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This one’s been lurking in my box for a while … the Center for Hellenic Studies have put up a copy of Milman Parry’s doctoral dissertation (?) … here’s their description: In this foundational and still critically important work, Parry offers a detailed and thorough analysis of proper name and epithet formulae. This analysis brought…
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