Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Wallace E. McLeod. "Studies on Panyassis_An Heroic Poet of the Fifth Century." Phoenix, 20:95-110.

The sixty lines of epic poetry by Panyassis (d. 460-450 B.C.) surviving in fragments exhibit an "all-pervasive" traditional diction, despite former scholarly claims for the poet's freedom from Homeric phraseology. Lists the "borrowings" from Homer and performs a formulaic analysis on a sample passage, concluding that Panyassis and Homer were equally oral composers.
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