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Mythologizing Performance\nby Richard P. Martin\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Richard P. Martin\nTitle: Mythologizing Performance\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: poetry and poets\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781501713101\nISBN-10: 1501713108\nRRP: \u00A325.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nBuilding on numerous original close readings of works by Homer, Hesiod, and other ancient Greek poets, Richard P. Martin articulates a broad and precise poetics of archaic Greek verse. The ancient Greek hexameter poetry of such works as the Iliad and the Odyssey differ from most modern verbal art because it was composed for live, face-to-face performance, often in a competitive setting, before an audience well versed in m.