Neoanalysis, Orality, and Intertextuality: An Examination of Homeric Motif Transference

Burgess, Jonathan S.

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“…Building on Most's 'temporalized intertextuality', Clay (2003), 6, treats both poems as 'fundamentally complementary and interdependent', going so far as to speculate that 'from the beginning Hesiod conceived of the poems as a diptych, and as he composed, he continually revised and reworked the one in the light of the other'. On intertextuality within an oral poetic tradition, see also Burgess (2006), Tsagalis (2008), Bakker (2013), 157-69, andLoney (2014).…”

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THE DISEASE OF MORTALITY IN HESIOD'STHEOGONY: PROMETHEUS, HERAKLES, AND THE INVENTION OFKLEOS

Mueller¹

2016

Ramus

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Hesiod's Theogony is not overtly concerned with the world of mortals. The place of humans in the Theogony nevertheless holds a certain fascination, perhaps more for what is not revealed—our origins, for example—than for what is. Focusing on a relatively neglected passage of the poem (Theogony 521-32), I want to trace here the way Hesiod lays out the cosmic coordinates of kleos (‘fame’ or ‘glory’) with a view to better situating the condition of mortality within the poem as a whole. Kleos, as we will see, is part of the fallout for humans of the battle of wits between Zeus and Prometheus: it is the compensation for their new, temporally inflected existence.

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THE DISEASE OF MORTALITY IN HESIOD'STHEOGONY: PROMETHEUS, HERAKLES, AND THE INVENTION OFKLEOS

Mueller¹

2016

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“…6.3.9) and an Etruscan bronze mirror from Vulci, where he is depicted as examining the liver of a sacrificial victim point in the same direction. 19 As pointed out in Burgess (2009) 61. See also Burgess (2006).…”

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“…19 As pointed out in Burgess (2009) 61. See also Burgess (2006). Brought to you by | Nanyang Technological University Authenticated Download Date | 6/9/15 5:45 AM cratic versions, Odysseus' lying stories providing the closest parallel.…”

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“…Contrary to the Neoanalysts' opinion, it is of little relevance whether it was in oral or in written form that they attained this position. As far as I can see, such recognition of Homer's special status as regards his tradition without at the same time 20 But see now Burgess (2009) 68-69, according to whom the phenomena discussed above, that is, everything that can be subsumed under the Neoanalyst motif transference, may well be regarded as traditional and therefore as not alien to oral poetry. Burgess also admits that even so the phenomena of this kind would be more characteristic of Homer than of other traditional poetry.…”

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Homer and His Peers: Neoanalysis, Oral Theory, and the Status of Homer

Finkelberg¹

2011

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Both leading trends in contemporary Homeric scholarship, Neoanalysis and Oral Theory, recognize today that the Iliad and the Odyssey frequently evoke episodes whose proper place is in the poems of the Epic Cycle. Yet, while in the Neoanalysts' eyes the intertextual relations between Homer and the Cycle mean that Homer enjoyed a special status which was due to the fact that his poems were composed with the help of writing, from the standpoint of oral formulaic theory Homer and the Cycle should nevertheless be placed on the same plane as independent variants of a common tradition. The article's main argument is that, contrary to the oralists' opinion, the position of the Homeric poems in Greek epic tradition was indeed unique. Contrary to the Neoanalysts' opinion, it is of little relevance whether it was in oral or in written form that they attained this position.

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“…La Neoanalisi, avvicinandosi alla teoria oralista, ha rinunciato all'insistenza sul rapporto di omero con testi ben definiti, accentuando invece il fatto che i poemi omerici condividano con i poemi del Ciclo una tradizione posta a monte senza che vi debba essere contatto diretto (cf. Kullmann 1984, Burgess 2006, Montanari 2012, Cerri 2002. Fondamentale è la visione di omero come «metaciclico» (Burgess 2006, p. 149), ovvero come manifestazione poetica eccezionale che prevede una profonda elaborazione del mito che sta alla sua base, seguito invece più fedelmente dal Ciclo (criterio naturalmente valido in generale e non in tutti i singoli casi ti.…”

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Zeus e il vantaggio troiano: tracce di elaborazioni della tradizione nell’<em>Iliade</em>

Verzina

2015

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Zeus and Trojan advantage: traces of elaborations of the tradition in the IliadSeguendo un modello teorico, questo lavoro mostra come l'autore dell'Iliade sia consapevole della potenziale contraddittorietà tra la versione tradizionale della storia dell'ira e la versione che egli elabora, gestendo entrambe secondo le esigenze espressive e le finalità strutturali del poema.Parole chiave: Neoanalisi; piano di Zeus; Cypria. Following a theoretical model, this article assumes that the poet of the Iliad is aware of the potential inconsistency between the traditional account of the wrath and the version which he elaborates, and shows how the poem manages both according to its expressive and structural purposes.

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Neoanalysis, Orality, and Intertextuality: An Examination of Homeric Motif Transference

Cited by 70 publications

References 76 publications

THE DISEASE OF MORTALITY IN HESIOD'STHEOGONY: PROMETHEUS, HERAKLES, AND THE INVENTION OFKLEOS

THE DISEASE OF MORTALITY IN HESIOD'STHEOGONY: PROMETHEUS, HERAKLES, AND THE INVENTION OFKLEOS

Homer and His Peers: Neoanalysis, Oral Theory, and the Status of Homer

Zeus e il vantaggio troiano: tracce di elaborazioni della tradizione nell’<em>Iliade</em>

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