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Zusatztext All in all the individual analyses of several associated topics rather than the tantalising suggestions concerning the alleged oral character of archaic elegy appear, in my opinion, to be the greatest advantage of the book ... there is no question about his book's overall merit. Informationen zum Autor R. Scott Garner is Assistant Professor, Rhodes College. Klappentext Traditional Elegy explores several issues related to the traditional compositional techniques that lay behind archaic Greek elegy. Through investigation of elegy's metrical partitioning, its repeated phraseological patterns, and the symbiosis of those patterns with metrical anomalies, it becomes clear that oral-formulaic processes were indeed at the heart of such poetry. Zusammenfassung Traditional Elegy explores several issues related to the traditional compositional techniques that lay behind archaic Greek elegy. Through investigation of elegy's metrical partitioning, its repeated phraseological patterns, and the symbiosis of those patterns with metrical anomalies, it becomes clear that oral-formulaic processes were indeed at the heart of such poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editions and Information for Ancient Authors of Epic and Elegy 1.: Elegy and Its Traditional Possibilities 2.: Formulas in Early Greek Elegy 3.: Epic Correption or "Traditional" Correption? 4.: Further Considerations Appendix I: Lexical Formulas Shared by the Stichic Hexameter, Elegiac Hexameter, and Elegiac Pentameter Appendix II: Correption Percentages by Line Position in the Iliad Appendix III: Correption Percentages by Line Position in the Odyssey Appendix IV: Long-Vowel Correption Percentages by Line Position in the Iliad Appendix V: Long-Vowel Correption Percentages by Line Position in the Odyssey Appendix VI: Long-Vowel Epic Correption Categorizations for Homer Appendix VII: Short-Vowel Epic Correption in Iliad 1 and Odyssey 1 Appendix VIII: Long-Vowel Epic Correption in Early Elegy Appendix IX: Short-Vowel Epic Correption in Early Elegy Appendix X: Correption in Epic beyond Homer Works Cited ...
