The Homeric Epics As Palimpsests

Danek, Georg

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“…I am also grateful to B. Currie, M. Hose, A. Kelly and A. Lardinois, who commented on written versions, though I remain responsible for the article's contents and shortcomings. 1 Throughout this contribution the words 'intertextual' and 'intertextuality' are used in the 'soft sense', as facetiously defined by G. Danek (2010) 129: 'a newly coined label for old fashioned concepts like 'citation' or 'allusion'' (viz. between distinct works or postulated mythic and song-traditions), and including artistic redeployment. Cf.…”

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Poseidon and Zeus in Iliad 7 and Odyssey 13: on a case of Homeric imitation

Ballesteros¹

2020

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This article aims to contribute to the current debate on how imitation in early Greek epic can be identified and assessed. Two divine scenes in Iliad Book 7 and Odyssey Book 13 are compared in the light of their traditional background and contextual significance. It is suggested that there are grounds to interpret this as a case of imitation on the Odyssey poet's part which, however, was not necessarily meant to elicit recognition of the subtext. A methodological point is made by showing that it is possible to argue for a specific intertextual relation by considering the traditional techniques involved.

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“…22 On early Greek epic intertextuality as 'palimpsest' see C Tsagalis (2008). and G Danek (2010),. who adapt the metaphor by G Genette (1982).…”

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Poseidon and Zeus in Iliad 7 and Odyssey 13: on a case of Homeric imitation

Ballesteros¹

2020

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Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation

Arft

2022

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Arete and the Odyssey’s Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale “poetics of interrogation” used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus’ kleos (epic renown). Arete’s interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European, Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corpora shows that the “stranger’s interrogation” is a formula that demands performance and negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the queen’s question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation of Odysseus’ status in epic and memory. Arete’s role as interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but also establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between her and her husband Alkinoos that influences the structure, genre, and narratology of performances across the Phaeacian episode. This book reinterprets the Odyssey’s central episode and challenges several assumptions about Nausikaa and Alkinoos’ famed hospitality, even demonstrating how the Apologue is organized as a response to competing inquiries into Odysseus’ fundamental status in tradition. The Odyssey ultimately navigates away from Odysseus’ public reputation and roots his status in private memories, and Arete’s carefully arranged interventions signal the larger process by which the Odyssey immortalizes Odysseus in poetry as a nostos hero. The queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the Odyssey.

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The Homeric Epics As Palimpsests

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Poseidon and Zeus in Iliad 7 and Odyssey 13: on a case of Homeric imitation

Poseidon and Zeus in Iliad 7 and Odyssey 13: on a case of Homeric imitation

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