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The Greek word aoidos (ἀοιδός; plural: aoidoi / ἀοιδοί) referred to a classical Greek singer. In modern Homeric scholarship aoidos is used by some as the technical term for a skilled oral epic poet in the tradition to which the Iliad and Odyssey are believed to belong (compare rhapsode).[2]
- ^ Баньковский 1986
- ^ Hence the English translators of (Latacz 2004) use aoidean poetry as a technical term for early Greek oral epic poetry.