Winged Word: Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek Oral Composition as Seen Principally Through Hesiod's Work and Days
by Peabody, Berkeley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0873950593
- ISBN 13
- 9780873950596
- Seller
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Dearborn, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
State University of New York Press, 1975-06-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Hardcover, Stated First Edition 1975 State University of New York Press 562 pages. Very Good+ in a VG+ DJ. Just a hint of shelf/edge wear to brown cloth boards with gilt titles-one tiny bump to edge of front panel. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to un-clipped DJ-now in mylar. No previous owner marks, no notes or writing-all pages are bright, clean and crisp. Albert B. Lord of the Center for the Study of Oral Literature at Harvard University and Honorary Curator of the Parry Collection, whose role is to preserve and disseminate the oral literatures of the world, calls this book "a landmark not only in Hesiod scholarship, but also in Homeric research and in the study of oral traditional literature in general." A superior copy. ISBN- 0873950593.LOC SSS-24
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- Bookseller
- Eyebrowse Books - MWABA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 150714007
- Title
- Winged Word: Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek Oral Composition as Seen Principally Through Hesiod's Work and Days
- Author
- Peabody, Berkeley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0873950593
- ISBN 13
- 9780873950596
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Place of Publication
- Albany
- Date Published
- 1975-06-01
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