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Parallel Culture Traits in Ancient and Modern Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Albert B. Lord
Albert B. Lord*
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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Extract

The epic is a cultural phenomenon (if not a trait) represented in ancient, medieval, and modern Greek literature, both oral and written. The question naturally arises whether there is any continuity in this genre in Greece from one age to the next, from ancient to modern times. We can seek an answer on a number of levels, but for this brief paper I have limited myself to two: narrative pattern (or, the type of the hero), and the formula, the phraseology of the poetry.

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Research Article
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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 3 , 1977 , pp. 71 - 80
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1997

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References

1. (Editors’ note: Professor Levy’s paper on ‘Parallel Culture Traits in Ancient and Modern Greece’ preceded Professor Lord’s at the joint APA/MGSA session during the American Philological Association’s annual meeting, Washington, D.C., December, 1975.)

2. Cf. Alexiou, Margaret, The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition (Cambridge, 1974)Google Scholar

3. Ibrovac, Miodrag, Claude Fauriel et la fortune européenne des poésies populaires grecque et serbe (Paris, 1966).Google Scholar