TY - BOOK AU - Bakker,Egbert J. ED - Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.) TI - Pointing at the past: from formula to performance in Homeric poetics T2 - Hellenic studies SN - 0674019555 PY - 2005/// CY - Washington, D.C., Cambridge, Mass. PB - Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, Distributed by Harvard University Press KW - Homero KW - Poesía épica griega KW - Historia y crítica KW - Retórica Antigua N1 - Peripheral and nuclear semantics -- Formula, context, and synonymy -- How oral is oral composition? -- Mimesis as performance -- The poetics of deixis -- Storytelling in the future -- Similes, augment, and the language of immediacy -- Remembering the god's arrival -- Mohammed and the mountain ER -