Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Theodore A. Tarkow. "Achilles' Responses to the Embassy." Classical Bulletin, 58:29-34.

In contending that Achilles' responses are part of an intention to exact vengeance on Agamemnon by creating confusion, he advocates a view that would ally older kinds of literary criticism with the more modern understanding of Homeric oral-formulaic compositional technique.
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