Individual Poet and Epic Tradition: Homer as Legendary Singer

The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry

Wayne B. Ingalls, Gregory Nagy · Phoenix · 1981 · 543 citations

Humanities, Classics, Literature +11

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

William Whallon, Adam Parry · Comparative Literature · 1972 · 491 citations

Humanities, Literature, Religious Studies +12

The language of heroes: speech and performance in the Iliad

Choice Reviews Online · 1990 · 465 citations

Humanities, Linguistics, Performing Arts +13

Literacy and Orality: Studies in the Technology of Communication.

Elizabeth Tonkin, Ruth Finnegan · Man · 1990 · 451 citations

Education, Communication, Literacy Education +7

Immanent Art. From Structure to Meaning in Traditional Oral Epic

Deniz Zeyrek, John Miles Foley · Asian Folklore Studies · 1992 · 388 citations

Humanities, Literature, Ancient Art +13