By G.S. Thompson
First released in 1955, it is a concise but accomplished advisor to the syntax of Attic Greek as written by way of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato and Demosthenes.
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Finnegan, Ruth 1988 Literacy and Orality. Studies in the Technology of Communication. Oxford. 26 Lauri Honko Hatto, Α. Τ. ) 1980 Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry. London. Haymes, Edward R. 1977 Das mündliche Epos. Eine Einführung in die 'Oral Poetry' Forschung. Stuttgart. Honko, Lauri 1985 "Zielsetzung und Methoden der finnischen Erzählforschung", in: Fabula 3/4. 1986 "Wooden Bells Ringing... Finnish and Chinese researchers among the Dong of Southern China", in: NIF Newsletter 2-3/1986. Innes, Gordon 1974 Sunjata, Three Mandinka Versions.
The contrast between Poseidon's cruel treatment of the state of which he is the patron, and Athena's way with her favourites is brought out sharply: the story has been immediately preceded by the beautiful description of the harbour of Odysseus' island shaded by a huge olive tree — the symbol of the 46 Minna Skafte Jensen goddess — and it is followed by the charming meeting of Athena and Odysseus on his native shore. Similar elements relate the other model city-state, Troy, directly to Athens. On the Trojan acropolis is the house of Priam and a temple to the goddess Athena, just as in Athens the tyrants shared the acropolis with the goddess.
22/1. Finnegan, Ruth 1988 Literacy and Orality. Studies in the Technology of Communication. Oxford. 26 Lauri Honko Hatto, Α. Τ. ) 1980 Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry. London. Haymes, Edward R. 1977 Das mündliche Epos. Eine Einführung in die 'Oral Poetry' Forschung. Stuttgart. Honko, Lauri 1985 "Zielsetzung und Methoden der finnischen Erzählforschung", in: Fabula 3/4. 1986 "Wooden Bells Ringing... Finnish and Chinese researchers among the Dong of Southern China", in: NIF Newsletter 2-3/1986.