Assertion: homer's poem | /r/HasProperty | composed through improvised oral performances
Facets:
value: originally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Starting in around 1928, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, after their studies of folk bards in the Balkans, developed the "Oral-Formulaic Theory" that the Homeric poems were originally composed through improvised oral performances, which relied on traditional epithets and poetic formulas.