Volume 39, Number 5 · March 5, 1992
Becoming Homer
By Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Epic Singers and Oral Tradition
by Albert Bates Lord
Cornell University Press, 262 pp., $36.50; $12.95 (paper)
Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
by Barry B. Powell
Cambridge University Press, 280 pp., $80.00
Cadmean Letters: The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and Further West Before 1400 B.C.
by Martin Bernal
Eisenbrauns, 156 pp., $19.50
The visitor to the library of the classical faculty at Harvard sees many photographs of past professors, almost all imposing, bearded figures; so imposing are they that it comes as a rude shock when one remarks that many of them have no very notable achievements to their credit. But among them one finds one youthful, strikingly handsome face, and it is the face of the most celebrated of all. No American classical scholar of the twentieth century has won higher praise than Milman Parry, who was born at Oakland, California, in 1902 and died in 1935.
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