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Neoanalysis and Oral Tradition in Homeric Studies
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By oral tradition I understand the transmission from one generation to another of verbal messages of any kind carried out without recourse to writing, whether because this medium is unavailable or by deliberate choice. The messages can be transmitted verbatim or re-created anew at the time of delivery.
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“the approach in question leads to the conclusion that, rather than being just two traditional poems among many, the Iliad and the Odyssey possessed a special status within the tradition to which they belonged.”
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“that more often than not Homer worked by consciously reshaping the tradition he inherited and adapting it to his own agenda”
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- Not matchedcites Slatkin 1991
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ballabriga 1998
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“that in everything concerning the general picture of the Trojan War the Homeric poems presuppose the tradition represented in the poems of the Cycle rather than vice versa”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ballabriga 1998
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“cf.my reviews ofMalkin 1998and Burgess 2001 (Finkelberg 2002a and 2002b).”
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“Finkelberg 2002b . Review of Burgess 1998 in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2002.09.04.”
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The returns of Odysseus: colonization and ethnicity
(1999) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.36-5824 · Cited by 513 · cited 1×
“Tel Aviv University 1 See especially Slatkin 1991, Ballabriga 1998, Danek 1998, Malkin 1998, and Burgess 2001; cf. my reviews of Malkin 1998 and Burgess 2001 (Finkelberg 2002a and 2002b).”
BackgroundThe tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle
Burgess, J. S. (2002) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.40-0741 · Cited by 376 · cited 1×
“Tel Aviv University 1 See especially Slatkin 1991, Ballabriga 1998, Danek 1998, Malkin 1998, and Burgess 2001; cf. my reviews of Malkin 1998 and Burgess 2001 (Finkelberg 2002a and 2002b).”
BackgroundThe Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad
Slatkin, L. M. (1992) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 226
Epos und Zitat: Studien zu den Quellen der Odyssee
Clay, J. S., & Danek, G. (2001) · The Classical World · doi:10.2307/4352607 · Cited by 151
Hartmann, A. (2003) · Cited by 50
The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle
Griffiths, F. T. (2003) · The Classical Review · Cited by 14
The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle
Edwards, M. W., & Burgess, J. S. (2004) · Phoenix · doi:10.2307/4135202 · Cited by 13
(1998) · Presses Universitaires de France eBooks · Cited by 12
Irad Malkin, The Returns of Odysseus. Colonization and Ethnicity
Papadopoulou-Belmehdi, I. (2000) · Kernos · doi:10.4000/kernos.1326 · Cited by 8
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Neoanalysis, Orality, and Intertextuality: An Examination of Homeric Motif Transference
Burgess, J. S. (2006) · Oral Tradition · doi:10.1353/ort.2006.0014 · Cited by 178
Agnoēsis and the Death of Odysseus in the Odyssey and the Telegony
Arft, J. (2019) · Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic Online · doi:10.1163/24688487-00301007 · Cited by 38
Ercolani, A., & Lulli, L. (2022) · De Gruyter eBooks · doi:10.1515/9783110751963 · Cited by 1
A Cyclic Theme in the Odyssey: The Oresteia in Zeus’ Speech (1, 28–43)
Scafoglio, G. (2022) · De Gruyter eBooks · doi:10.1515/9783110751963-006
. (Antiquity in the Modern Times. Homeric Question)Preprint
Grintser, N. P., & Shumilin, M. (2015) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2626513
Metadata
- Authors
- Finkelberg, M.
- Corresponding author
- Finkelberg, Margalit
- ORCID
- Finkelberg, Margalit
- Venue
- Oral Tradition
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2003-03
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 68-69
- ISSN
- 0883-5365 (ISSN-L)
- 1542-4308
- OpenAlex
- W1985769565
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2022: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 1.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Oral tradition (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- MOspace Institutional Repository (University of Missouri) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Classical Antiquity Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Classical Studies and Philology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Keywords
- neoanalysis, Homeric studies, oral transmission, verbal messages, Homeric epic
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