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The interface between syntax and meaning, both semantic and pragmatic, has emerged as an area of linguistics theory. This study applies some of these ideas to hyperbaton, offering a new theory with broad applications for our understanding of Greek syntax.

Greek language --- Oral-formulaic analysis --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Word order --- Syntax --- Homer --- Language --- Oral-formulaic analysis. --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Syntax. --- Word order. --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Formulaic analysis, Oral --- Folk literature --- Folklore --- Oral tradition --- Indo-European languages --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Rhetoric --- History and criticism --- Methodology --- Homeros --- Homère --- Language. --- Homerus --- Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero --- Greek language - Word order --- Greek language - Syntax --- Homer - Language

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This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people. The investigation draws on a wide range of approaches from formulaic analysis to the study of early performance contexts. From a close reading of the Homeric epics, Homer's people emerge as a community without effective social structures. When this is viewed from the perspective of Homeric performances in the polis, a contrast between Homer's laoi and the founding people of ritual emerges. While the former typically perish, the survival of the latter is secured by the establishment of successful institutions.

Epic poetry, Greek --- Politics and literature --- Literature and society --- Social structure in literature. --- Community life in literature. --- Oral-formulaic analysis. --- Formulaic analysis, Oral --- Folk literature --- Folklore --- Oral tradition --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Methodology --- Homer --- Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Homeros --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homère --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero --- Political and social views. --- Social structure in literature --- Community life in literature --- Oral-formulaic analysis --- Poésie épique grecque --- Politique et littérature --- Littérature et société --- Structure sociale dans la littérature --- Communauté dans la littérature --- Analyse des formules orales --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism. --- Politics and literature - Greece. --- Literature and society - Greece. --- Homerus