IN THE 1930s a young assistant professor of classics at Harvard University, Milman Parry, combed the mountains and valleys of Yugoslavia in search of epic songs. Several districts of that country were ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Robert Cioffi HEARING HOMER’S SONG The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry By Robert Kanigel ...

Adam Kirsch, in his essay on the classicist Milman Parry’s studies of Homer, is too quick to conclude that the Iliad and the Odyssey were produced by the oral tradition rather than created by ...

On the third floor of Harvard Widener Library, where the now-obsolete card catalogs reside, above the heroön of Henry Elkins Widener — who went down on the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic — the special, ...

One of the most influential arguments put forward in Alasdair MacIntyre's landmark study, After Virtue, is the claim that human beings are storytelling animals, and that normative moral arguments tend ...

Homer, one of the most famous poets of all time, is firmly entrenched in the Western canon as a master of classical literature. His two most renowned works, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are core texts ...