The Homer Reader The Iliad & Odyssey · Greek and English

Formulas lists the fixed epithet-formulas the apparatus identifies by dictionary form; this page lists every word-sequence that simply recurs, however spelled and wherever it falls in the verse.

Corpus phrase index

Phrases

Every two- to five-word sequence Homer uses more than once: 68,550 surface-form phrases, 158,973 dictionary-form phrases and 118,695 phrases of the translations, counted across both poems. What is this?

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Distinctiveness measures how much more often the phrase occurs than its words appearing independently would predict. It only orders the list; it never removes anything.

Every run of two to five words that Homer uses more than once, counted. Start with one of these, or type a phrase above.

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