Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Henri Gregoire. "L'Epopée vivante à Byzance." In L'Epopée vivante, a special issue of La Table ronde, 132:109-13.

Reports the historical contribution of the Armouropoulos, which as an originally oral epic is more comprehensive on the events of the ninth century than are the official histories. Notes the contemporary evidence, in Arethas (c. 932) and in the celebrated verse epic Digenis Akritas, of orally composed poetry of length and complexity. Reconstructs the no longer extant epic cycles from the writings of historians.
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