Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Julia H. Gaisser. "Adaptation of Traditional Material in the Glaucus-Diomedes Episode." Transactions of the American Philological Association, 100:165-76.

Argues that Homer has molded the traditional content of the Glaucus-Diomedes encounter in Iliad 6 to agree with details in the surrounding narrative (after Willcock 1964) and also for aesthetic effect.
Area: AG