Introduction [[This volume is an electronic version of Homeric Questions, originally published in 1996 by the University of Texas Press. The original pagination of the printed version will be indicated in this electronic version inside pointed brackets (“{“ and “}”). For example, {6|7} indicates where p. 6… Read more
Chapter 1. Homer and Questions of Oral Poetry The term oral poetry may not fully capture the concept behind it, in view of the semantic difficulties conjured up by both individual words, oral and poetry. Still, the composite term oral poetry has a historical validity in that… Read more
Chapter 2. An Evolutionary Model for the Making of Homeric Poetry The massive accumulation of new or newly-appreciated comparative evidence about the nature of epic in oral poetry demands application to the ongoing study of individual epic traditions. I propose here to apply some of this evidence,… Read more
Chapter 3. Homer and the Evolution of a Homeric Text In order to find a historical context for the writing down of the Homeric text, the most obvious strategy is to look for a stage in ancient Greek history when the technology of writing could produce a… Read more
Chapter 4. Myth as Exemplum in Homer There are questions about the Homeric parádeigma, which I translate for the moment by way of Latin exemplum ‘example’, following the lead of earlier inquiries. [1] In an influential article on the subject of mythological… Read more
Epilogue Throughout this work, the central aim was to reintroduce the vitality of performance, of oral tradition in general, to the conceptual framework of the Classics. This aim addresses the need to be vigilant over tradition itself, all tradition. Earlier, I had argued that the field of… Read more
Bibliography Adams, D. Q. 1987. “Hērōs and Hērā: Of Men and Heroes in Greek and Indo-European,” Glotta 65:171-178. Allen, T. W., ed. 1912. Homeri Opera V (Hymns, Cycle, fragments, etc.). Oxford. ———. 1924. Homer: The Origins and the… Read more
ΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ ΕΙΣ ΤΑΣ ΑΝΑΤΟΛΙΚΑΣ ΕΠΑΡΧΙΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΔΥΟ ΠΡΩΤΟΥΣ ΑΙΩΝΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΑΒΟΚΡΑΤΙΑΣ (Ζ΄& Η΄) Διατριβὴ ἐπὶ διδακτορίᾳ ὑποβληθεῖσα εἰς τὴν Φιλοσοφικὴν Σχολὴν τοῦ Ἐθνικοῦ καὶ Καποδιστριακοῦ Πανεπιστημίου Ἀθηνῶν SOLIMAN SAMEH FAROUK ΕΘΝΙΚΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΠΟΔΙΣΤΡΙΑΚΟΝ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟΝ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΚΗ ΣΧΟΛΗ ΤΜΗΜΑ… Read more
ΠΡΟΛΟΓΟΣ Ἡ σίγησις πολλῶν παραδοσιακῶν λογοτεχνικῶν εἰδῶν προσδίδει εἰς τὸν ζ΄ καὶ η΄ αἰῶνα τὸν χαρακτηρισμὸν τῶν Σκοτεινῶν Αἰώνων (650-850), δηλ. αἰώνων διανοητικοῦ σκότους καὶ ἀπαιδευσίας τὴν ὁποίαν ὁ Ἑλληνικὸς Ἀνατολικὸς κόσμος ὑποτίθεται ὅτι ὑπέστη ὡς ὁμοίως ὁ Λατινικὸς Δυτικός. [1] Κατὰ… Read more
