Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

J.A. Davison. "The Transmission of the Text." In A Companion to Homer. Ed. Alan J.B. Wace and Frank H. Stubbings. London: Macmillan. pp. 215-33.

A history of the transmission of the Iliad and Odyssey, from the evidence of the poems themselves and the latter-day rhapsodes who performed them from fixed texts to the Alexandrians through Byzantine scholarship.
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