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  • Parallel Culture Traits in Ancient and Modern Greece

  • Albert B. Lord
  • Journal:
    Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies / Volume 3 / 1977
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 January 2016, pp. 71-80
    Print publication:
    1977

  • 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.