Hearing Homer's Song by Robert Kanigel

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/126580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hearing Homer's Song Author: Robert Kanigel Narrator: Richard Poe Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 1 min Release date: 04-27-21 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 30 ratings Genres: Greece Publisher's Summary: In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric studies." So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a "before" Parry and an "after." Kanigel describes the "before", when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930s, assumed that the Homeric epics were "written" texts, the way we think of most literature.