num_pages: 288
description: Drawing on recent studies in ethnography and sociolinguistics, Richard Martin here sets forth a poetics of Homeric speeches, which he sees not merely as poetic creations but as the representation of an actual form of speaking in a traditional culture.
language: English
title: The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad
titlecomplete: The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Cornell University Press