Singing Homer’s Spell. The Disyllabic Contonation and the Proposition Made by East Roman Manuscripts
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https://doi.org/10.26512/dramaturgias19.45122Keywords:
Prosody, Hexameter, Text, Performance, HomerAbstract
In this paper, we propose the reconstitution of the melodic contour of the Homeric verse, in order to enable the understanding and re-performance of texts such as Iliad and Odyssey.
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