Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

W.F. Albright. "Some Oriental Glosses on the Homeric Problem." American Journal of Archeology, 54:162-76.

Brings to bear literary and archaeological evidence concerning the Hittite, Phoenician, Mycenaean, Canaanite, Assyrian, and Babylonian civilizations on a complex of Homeric questions, including the mixed epic dialect, oral composition, and a continuous tradition of writing, as these matters affect the date of composition and the events recounted in Homer.
Area: AG, HT, BY, CP