The language of heroes : speech and performance in the Iliad
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 265 pages ; 24 cm.
9780801423536, 9780801480706, 0801423538, 0801480701
19779316
Foreword / Gregory Nagy
Preface
1. Performance, speech-act, and utterance
2. Heroic genres of speaking
3. Heroes as performers
4. The language of Achilles
5. The expansion aesthetic
The poet as hero: a conclusion