Open AccessLa poesía sapiencial de Grecia arcaica y los orígenes del hexámetro
Author(s) -
José Antonio Fernández Delgado
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1982.v50.i1.785
Subject(s) - poetry , philosophy , literature , art
The paper deals with the origin of hexameter. Several number of proverbial expressions are given to support the theory of the existence of an old tradition of gnomic oral poetry, and, specially, as evidence of an eventual origin of the meter starting from the combination of some prototypical cōla, first of all, that of the hemiepes and the enhoplius-paroemiachus.