William Merrit Sale
William Merritt Sale, Professor Emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at Washington University, has published extensively on Homer, South Slavic, and Romance epic as well as other classical areas. Essays on oral tradition in the Iliad and Odyssey have appeared in journals such as Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, the American Journal of Philology, and Transactions of the American Philological Association.
Articles by William Merrit Sale
Homer and Roland: The Shared Formular Technique, Part I
Volume 8, Issue 1 (March, 1993)Homer and Roland: The Shared Formular Technique, Part II
Volume 8, Issue 2 (October, 1993)In Defense of Milman Parry: Renewing the Oral Theory
Volume 11, Issue 2 (October, 1996)
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