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    Milman Parry (June 23, 1902 – December 3, 1935) was an American Classicist whose theories on the origin of Homer's works have revolutionized Homeric studies...
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  • Adam Milman Parry (February 1, 1928 – June 6, 1971) was an American classical scholar. He worked on Greek and Latin history literature, particularly the...
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    epics in the former Yugoslavia, organized by the American classicist Milman Parry in the period from 1932 to 1934 (in parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina,...
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    that they are not attested elsewhere. In the hands of Meillet's student Milman Parry (1902–1935), and subsequently the latter's student Albert Lord (1912–1991)...
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  • literature at Harvard University who carried on Milman Parry's research on epic poetry after Parry's death. Lord was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He...
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    ancient Indian religious text, the Ṛgveda (c. 1500 BCE). Research by Milman Parry and Albert Lord indicates that the verse of the Greek poet Homer has...
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  • by Milman Parry and Albert Lord during their research on the oral epic tradition of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro in the 1930s. At Parry's request...
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    the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord. Providing a complete catalogue of Albanian texts and recordings collected by Parry and Lord with a selection...
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  • footballer Mike Parry (born 1954), English journalist and radio presenter Mike Parry (politician) (born 1953), American politician Milman Parry (1902–1935)...
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  • applications to Homeric and medieval epic. Lord builds on the research of Milman Parry and their joint work recording Balkan guslar poets. It was published...
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    did not receive mainstream recognition until after the seminal work of Milman Parry in the early 20th century. Now most classicists agree that, whether or...
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  • "Les Belles Lettres", 1928. Parry, Milman, ed. Adam Parry. "The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry." Oxford: The Clarendon Press...
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    bulky discs, were hauled to remote locations such as Yugoslavia (see Milman Parry) or the Mississippi Delta (see Archive of American Folk Song) by ethnographers...
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    Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord. Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature Series. Vol...
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    of the book, George Derwent Thomson, Kanigel came across the ideas of Milman Parry, the "Darwin of Homeric Studies". Kanigel followed his interest and wrote...
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    Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord. Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature Series. Vol...
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  • Foley (ed.). Comparative Research on Oral Traditions: A Memorial for Milman Parry. Slavica Publishers. pp. 395–423. ISBN 9780893571733. Price, Neil (2020)...
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    Parry and Lord also contend that the most likely source for written texts of the epics of Homer was dictation from an oral performance. Milman Parry and...
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    2002, p. 11. Ong 2002, p. 32. Parry, Adam, ed. (1971), The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry, Clarendon Press, Oxford, p. 272...
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  • had recently been identified (still controversially at the time) by Milman Parry as an oral poet, but Cornford and other scholars of these early philosophers...
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  • London: Faber & Faber. Parry, Milman. 1971. The making of Homeric verse: The collected papers of Milman Parry. Edited by Adam Parry. Oxford: Clarendon. Reece...
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    libros Eneidos Vergilii Parry, Milman (1971), The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry, edited by Adam Parry. p. 169 Virgil, Aeneid...
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  • specializing in Homer and archaic Greek poetry. Nagy is known for extending Milman Parry and Albert Lord's theories about the oral composition-in-performance...
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  • is a memory aid of what follows - see oral-formulaic composition and Milman Parry. The oral song, sung by the presumably illiterate pirates, and passed...
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  • Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord. Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature Series. Vol...
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    ISBN 0-393-05788-7, pp. 186-187. Parry, Milman (1971), Parry, Adam (ed.), The making of Homeric verse. The collected papers of Milman Parry, Oxford: Clarendon Press...
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  • in Anglo-Saxon poetry refers to the application of the hypotheses of Milman Parry and Albert Lord on the Homeric Question to verse written in Old English...
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    increasingly seen as a discredited dead end. Starting in around 1928, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, after their studies of folk bards in the Balkans, developed...
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    incest, and wagons oral Memories of the religion(s) of the Vanir. The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University. p. 123. ISBN 9780674975699...
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  • Edward Mansfield, Iowa Supreme Court justice and adjunct law professor Milman Parry, professor of Greek and Latin, 1928-29 Ione Genevieve Shadduck (1923–2022)...
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