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Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a ''new fangled'' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers.
Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer''s epics might have been culled from a verbal tradition. But the local Governor believes its an elaborate spying mission and arranges for his own spy to follow them.The two d...
Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a ''new fangled'' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers.
Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer''s epics might have been culled from a verbal tradition. But the local Governor believes its an elaborate spying mission and arranges for his own spy to follow them.The two d...
