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John Miles Foley (1947–2012)

Author of A Companion to Ancient Epic

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John Miles Foley was William H. Byler Chair in the Humanities, Curators' Professor of Classical Studies and English, and the director of the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He was the author or editor of twenty books, including How to Read an Oral show more Poem. show less

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The Cambridge Companion to Homer (2004) — Contributor — 149 copies, 1 review
A new companion to Homer (1997) — Contributor — 26 copies
Epic and History (2009) — Contributor — 16 copies
Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity (2004) — Contributor — 13 copies
Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text (1997) — Contributor — 6 copies
Approaches to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (2009) — Contributor — 4 copies
Signs of Orality: The Oral Tradition and Its Influence in the Greek and Roman World (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Bat (1999) — Contributor — 4 copies
Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 126 (1996) — Contributor — 2 copies
Arethusa (vol 31 no 2) — Contributor — 1 copy
Epea pteroenta : Beiträge zur Homerforschung : Festschrift für Wolfgang Kullmann zum 75. Geburtstag (2002) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Birthdate
1947-01-22
Date of death
2012-05-03
Gender
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Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Place of death
Columbia, Missouri, USA
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