5. Language about Achilles: Linguistic Frame Theory and the Formula in Homeric Poetics, Charles Stocking
5. Language about Achilles: Linguistic Frame Theory and the Formula in Homeric Poetics Charles Stocking The Formula: Some Theoretical Considerations Few if any scholars today can deny that the formula is an essential feature of Homeric verse. G. S. Kirk says in the preface to his Iliad commentary: The whole question of the formular, conventional or traditional component in the Homeric language is extremely… Read more