The Collected Papers of Milman Parry, ristampa, Oxford University Press, New York, 1987. Innocenzo DE GAUDIO 32 According to these authors, it would be a great oral-aural cycle of traditional culture, in a period that includes the archaic and classical eras, until the Middle Age: cultures to whom the word, according to its origin, seems strongly tied with its oral, voiced and, in the same.