Mind-based Research Meets the Homeric Epics: Looking Again at Communicative Strategies in the Homeric Epics

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: Orality and Epic Poetry. Old Questions and New Perspectives VII
4. Mind-based Research Meets the Homeric Epics: Looking Again at Communicative Strategies in the Homeric Epics 1
5. Interformulaic Homer: Evidence from the “Wild” Papyri 19
6. Two Chronological Extremes of the Homeric Language: πρόφρασσα and εἶπα 41
7. Technologies of Orality: Formularity, Meter, and Kunstsprache in Homer 51
8. A Cyclic Theme in the Odyssey: The Oresteia in Zeus’ Speech (1, 28–43) 83
9. Audiences of the Prophecy of Tiresias in Odyssey Book XI 103
10. Traces of Orality in the Histories: The Homeric ‘Heritage’ in Herodotean Battles and Speeches 117
11. Some Reflections on Orality and Epic Poetry in Ancient Literary Criticism 145
12. Homer and ‘the Elegists’: an Ancient Construction of Difference 165
13. Paradoxes of ‘Orality’: A Comparison between Homeric Oral Poetry and the Heroic and Courtly Epics in Middle High German 177
14. Epos and Orality: Conclusive Remarks and Open Questions 207
15. Index Notable Things 213
16. Index Discussed Passages 217