By Øivind Andersen, Dag T. T. Haug
This booklet units out to disentangle the complicated chronology of early Greek epic poetry, together with Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. The preserved corpus of those texts is characterized by means of a slightly uniform language and lots of ordinary issues, therefore making the institution of chronological priorities a tricky job. The editors have introduced jointly students engaged on those texts from either a linguistic and a literary standpoint to deal with the matter. a few contributions supply statistical research of the linguistic fabric or linguistic research of subgenres inside epic, others use a neoanalytical method of the background of epic issues or differently search to trace the advance and interrelationship of epic contents. the entire participants concentrate on the consequences in their examine for the courting of early epic poems relative to one another. hence the ebook deals an outline of the present country of debate.
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It is sometimes assumed that gnomai and accounts of rural activities are likely to be the least traditional of all the types of hexameter poetry of the archaic period. Certainly it is true that the diction of the Works and Days is very advanced: but it is nonetheless not as advanced, by a good margin, as the narrative in the Hymn to Demeter, which is in terms of content reminiscent of scenes in Phaeacia and Ithaca in the Odyssey. Moreover, Works and Days – consists of mythic narrative, and Griffin ().
A-stem gen. plur. o-stem gen. sing. gen. sing. in ∗ -oo or -ou o- and a-stem dat. plur. o- and a-stem short dat. plur. o-stem acc. plur. a-stem acc. plur. oblique cases of ZeÅv ga±a and g tkov and tknon u and eÉ n-mobile before consonant no. of verses c.
The consistency of the results that I obtained for Homer and Hesiod shows that their poems are not subject to ‘false archaism’ but are genuinely archaic compositions, whose the bards learnt their diction from their contemporaries and not from some far older, fixed text. If such texts were available in any form to Homer and Hesiod, they have had no discernible effect on the texture of the language of those poets. The later poets, on the other hand, like those of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, offer no such consistent patterns.