Abstract
Why are there so many instances - and so many varieties - of repetition in the oral epics that we associate with Homer's name? In this paper I begin with Deborah Tannen's observations on repetition in spontaneous conversational discourse. I then turn to the oral epic tradition that had flourished in early Greece to consider how repetition operates in its two representative poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Oral Poetics and Cognitive Science |
| Editors | Mihailo Antovic and Cristobal Pagan Canovas |
| Place of Publication | Berlin Germany |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
| Pages | 12-29 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783110348385 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
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