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The Metrical Structure of the Oral Decapentasyllable*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Peter Mackridge
Peter Mackridge*
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St. Cross College, Oxford
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What Milman Parry saw as his ‘historical method’ in Homeric criticism has paradoxically relieved students of the Greek folk song from the obligation to approach their subject of study from an exclusively genetic or ‘etymological’ — in a word, historical — viewpoint. Instead of having to search for — or rather to speculate about — the origins of Greek oral poetry in the mists of antiquity or to assess the extent to which a song can provide reliable historical evidence concerning past events, we are free to turn our attention, as scholars such as Roderick Beaton (1980) and Grigoris Sifakis (1988) have done, to a synchronic study of the folk-song tradition, concentrating as much on the rules that generate the songs as on the significance of actual samples collected in the field (or in the scholar’s study or the recording studio).

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 14 , 1990 , pp. 200 - 213
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1990

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