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The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad (Myth and Poetics) by Richard P. Martin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad (Myth and Poetics) about?
Drawing 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
Who reads The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad (Myth and Poetics)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard P. Martin
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press; NCROL
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801423536
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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