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Publication Orestes in Skopje: The Macedonian Oresteia of Milcho Manchevski(Center for Hellenic Studies, 2012) Elmer, DavidPublication Building Community Across the Battle-Lines: The Truce in Iliad 3 and 4(Verlag Antike, 2012) Elmer, DavidPublication The Meaning of Melody: Remarks on the Performance-Based Analysis of Bosniac Epic Song.(Verlag, 2012) Elmer, David; Bonifazi, AnnaPublication The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) Elmer, DavidThis essay provides a brief historical sketch of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature and describes recent efforts to provide electronic access to the contents of the archive. It concludes with thoughts about fruitful areas for new research on the materials in the Parry Collection.Publication The Epic Cycle and the Ancient Novel(Cambridge University Press, 2015) Elmer, DavidPublication The ‘Narrow Road’ and the Ethics of Language Use in the Iliad and the Odyssey(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015) Elmer, DavidI begin this exploration of characteristically Iliadic and Odyssean attitudes toward the traditional language in which these poems are composed by treading again a well-rutted path in the field of mid-20th century Homeric studies. In formulating his radical revision of the aesthetics of Homeric poetry, Milman Parry took as one of his guiding principles Heinrich Düntzer's notion of a contradiction between the compositional utility of the fixed epithet and its semantic value: if an epithet could be shown to have been selected on the basis of its utility in versification—and Parry's detailed examinations of extensive and economical systems of noun-epithet formulae were aimed in part at demonstrating this point—then it would be proven by that very fact that the epithet's meaning was irrelevant to its selection. Moreover, Parry asserted that the success of poetry composed in such a manner would depend on a corresponding indifference on the part of the audience, an indifference that must be, by his reasoning, categorical and absolute.Publication Heliodoros' "Sources": Intertextuality, Paternity, and the Nile River in the Aithiopika(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) Elmer, DavidKharikleia, the heroine of Heliodoros’s Aithiopika, shares with the novel a tripartite identity; she is a metaphor for the incorporation of multiple literary models into a single text. Heliodoros sets up the Nile river as a figure for the heterogeneity of both heroine and book. The implication is that the discovery of the source of the Nile will mean the discovery of a single, true identity. Ultimately, however, the figure of the Nile casts doubt on whether genealogy, as the search for a point of origin, is a useful way of understanding the nature of hybrid entities such as Kharikleia and her text.Publication Epikoinos: The Ball Game Episkuros and Iliad 12.421–23(University of Chicago Press, 2008) Elmer, DavidPublication Presentation Formulas in South Slavic Epic Song(Center for Studies in Oral Tradition, 2009) Elmer, DavidPublication Helen Epigrammatopoios(University of California Press, 2005) Elmer, DavidAncient commentators identify several passages in the Iliad as “epigrams.” This paper explores the consequences of taking the scholia literally and understanding these passages in terms of inscription. Two tristichs spoken by Helen in the teikhoskopia are singled out for special attention. These lines can be construed not only as epigrams in the general sense, but more specifically as captions appended to an image of the Achaeans encamped on the plain of Troy. Since Helen's lines to a certain extent correspond to the function and style of catalogic poetry, reading them specifically as captions leads to a more nuanced understanding of both Homeric poetry and Homeric self-reference. By contrasting Helen's “epigrams” with those of Hektor, one can also discern a gender-based differentiation of poetic functions.