Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

M.D. Reeve. "The Language of Achilles." Classical Quarterly, n.s. 23:193-95.

Contests A. Parry's (1956) view that there were "certain things that the inherited vocabulary of oral poets did not allow them to say" (193), arguing that Parry's examples from Achilles' language are invalid.
Area: AG