Comparative mythology corpus

Oral Preservation By Trained Bards

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Greek The Iliad The Iliad / CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION.; lines 586-663 medium Advocates of written Homeric poems from the beginning are said to rely on the necessity of manuscripts for preservation, while the narrator argues that trained bards with extraordinary memory are less surprising than long manuscripts in a non-reading age. record