Download or read book The Language of Heroes written by Richard P. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent studies in ethnography and sociolinguistics, Richard Martin here sets forth a poetics of Homeric speeches, which he sees not merely as poetic creations but as the representation of an actual form of speaking in a traditional culture.