Heroes' names, Homeric identities

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Heroes' names, Homeric identities

Carolyn Higbie

(Albert Bates Lord studies in oral tradition, v. 10)(Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 1366)

Garland Pub., 1995

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and indexes

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An account of the practice of naming the Homeric poems. Demonstrates how the mode of identification signals one's place in the social fabric, with or without the addition of personal history, and discusses word-play involving names and the possible evolutionary relationship between epithets and the

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