Orality And The Homeric Epic
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Author | : Jonathan L. Ready |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019883506X |
Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE, but what about Homeric texts prior to the emergence of standardized written texts? Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics sheds light on that earlier history by drawing on scholarship from outside the discipline of classical studies to query from three different angles what it means to speak of Homeric poetry together with the word "text". Part I utilizes work in linguistic anthropology on oral texts and oral intertextuality to illuminate both the verbal and oratorical landscapes our Homeric poets fashion in their epics and what the poets were striving to do when they performed. Looking to folkloristics, part II examines modern instances of the textualization of an oral traditional work in order to reconstruct the creation of written versions of the Homeric poems through a process that began with a poet dictating to a scribe. Combining research into scribal activity in other cultures, especially in the fields of religious studies and medieval studies, with research into performance in the field of linguistic anthropology, part III investigates some of the earliest extant texts of the Homeric epics, the so-called wild papyri. By looking at oral texts, dictated texts, and wild texts, this volume traces the intricate history of Homeric texts from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, long before the emergence of standardized written texts, in a comparative and interdisciplinary study that will benefit researchers in a number of disciplines across the humanities.
Author | : Rainer Friedrich |
Publisher | : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Oral tradition |
ISBN | : 9783515120487 |
"Milman Parry's comparative study of Homer and Southslavic oral song had demonstrated the existence of an oral tradition behind and within the Homeric Epic, thus establishing an indisputable link between Homer and oral poetry. Yet its exact nature has remained a moot point. For equally indisputable is the fact of the coexistence of oral and literate features within the Homeric Epic. Thus not behaving as either a straight oral song or as a straight literate text tout court, the Homeric Epic calls into question the prevailing Parryist axiom of the oral Homer. The link between Homer and oral poetry has thus become an open question again: it is, in fact, the New Homeric Question that turns on the roles of orality and literacy in the genesis of the Homeric Epic.To clarify it this book experiments with a third term: postorality. As a postoral poet, having initially been trained as an oral bard absorbing the Hellenic oral tradition, Homer would have acquired literacy in the course of his career as an oral singer. It enabled him to widen, deepen, and refine his epic art, thereby giving rise to an epic as complex and unique, in terms of structure, characterization, and intellectual substance, as the Iliad."--
Author | : Minna Skafte Jensen |
Publisher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | : 9788772890968 |
In Danish, Appendix in Greek or Latin.
Author | : Patrick Reilly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | : |
Author | : E. Anne MacKay |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004112735 |
This volume presents essays by leading scholars on the nature of orality as represented by the Homeric poems, and the effect of the oral way of thinking on the subsequent literate and literary development of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
Author | : Christos Tsagalis |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Tsagalis argues that just as the discarded text of a palimpsest still carries traces of its previous writing, so the Homeric tradition unfolds its awareness of alternate versions as it reveals signs of their erasure.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2021-09-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004466665 |
This volume features an international group of experts on the literature, philosophy, and religion of the ancient Mediterranean world. Each paper makes a unique contribution, and together, the papers draw an engaging portrait of the idea of “repetition.”
Author | : Jonathan L. Ready |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0198802552 |
Presenting a new take on what made the Homeric epics such successful examples of verbal artistry, this volume explores the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from the neglected comparative perspectives offered by the study of modern-day oral traditions.
Author | : John Miles Foley |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2015-08-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271072415 |
In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwide oral traditions. John Foley here examines the artistic implications that oral tradition holds for the understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey in order to establish a context for their original performance and modern-day reception. In Homer's Traditional Art, Foley addresses three crucially interlocking areas that lead us to a fuller appreciation of the Homeric poems. He first explores the reality of Homer as their actual author, examining historical and comparative evidence to propose that "Homer" is a legendary and anthropomorphic figure rather than a real-life author. He next presents the poetic tradition as a specialized and highly resonant language bristling with idiomatic implication. Finally, he looks at Homer's overall artistic achievement, showing that it is best evaluated via a poetics aimed specifically at works that emerge from oral tradition. Along the way, Foley offers new perspectives on such topics as characterization and personal interaction in the epics, the nature of Penelope's heroism, the implications of feasting and lament, and the problematic ending of the Odyssey. His comparative references to the South Slavic oral epic open up new vistas on Homer's language, narrative patterning, and identity. Homer's Traditional Art represents a disentangling of the interwoven strands of orality, textuality, and verbal art. It shows how we can learn to appreciate how Homer's art succeeds not in spite of the oral tradition in which it was composed but rather through its unique agency.
Author | : Andrew Porter |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2022-01-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004455558 |
How can the ancient relationship between Homer and the Epic Cycle be recovered? Using the most significant research in the field, Andrew Porter questions many ancient and modern assumptions and offers alternative perspectives better aligned with ancient epic performance realities and modern epic studies.