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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-13 - Publisher: University of Texas Press
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Pages: 248
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-02 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
This book argues that oracular utterance, dramatic acting, and rhetorical delivery powerfully elucidate the practice of epic rhapsodes in Homeric performance. A