The Scepter and the Spear is a wide-ranging reassessment of the study of Homer as literature in the wake of Milman Parry and Albert Lord's discoveries about the nature of oral poetry. Lowenstam's insights into such problems as the functional reality of formulae in general and epithets in particular will be of value not only to Classicists but also to all scholars and students interested in oral poetics.
- ISBN10 0847677729
- ISBN13 9780847677726
- Publish Date 5 October 1993 (first published 24 September 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Language English