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This is the second volume on the mechanisms of oral communication in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry, a genre with deep roots in orality. Considering the critical debate about orality and its influence on the composition, diffusion and transmission of the archaic epic poems, the survey provides a reconsideration and a reassessment of the traces of orality in the archaic epic poetry, following their adaptation in the synchronic and diachronic changes of the communicative system. Combining the methods of cognitive science, and the historical and literary analysis of the texts, the research explores the complexity of the literary message of the Greek epic poetry, highlighting its position in a system of oral communication. The consideration of structural and formal aspects, i.e. the traces of orality in the narrative architecture, in the epic diction, in the meter and the formulaic system, as well as the vestiges of the mixture of orality and writing, allows to reconstruct a dynamic frame of communicative modalities which influenced and enriched the archaic epic poetry, providing it with expressive potentialities destined to a longlasting permanence in the history of the genre.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Transcodification. --- Translation Studies. --- ancient communicative system. --- archaic Greek epic poetry. --- culture. --- orality.

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This book provides a comprehensive study of the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi, an influential ancient Greek text that narrates the lives of Homer and Hesiod and their legendary poetic contest. It offers new perspectives on the nature, uses, and legacy of the text and its tale of literary competition. Located within a recent trend in scholarship that treats ancient biographies as modes of literary reception, the first chapter discusses how, for authors throughout antiquity and beyond, staging an imaginary competition between Homer and Hesiod was an adaptable and flexible way to convey a diverse range of speculations on epic poetry. The study of the manuscript tradition reassesses the relationships between the text of the Certamen preserved in its entirety in one single manuscript, and a small number of fragmentary witnesses on papyrus. It also presents new textual evidence demonstrating the success and circulation of the text in the Renaissance, and a new critical edition with translation. The commentary focuses on how the text characterises the two poets and encourages reflection on their respective wisdom, aesthetic and ethical values, divine inspiration, and Panhellenic appeal. It also addresses the role of Alcidamas as a source for the Certamen and identifies other sophistic influences.

Greek literature --- Criticism, Textual. --- Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi. --- Textual criticism. --- archaic Greek epic. --- classical reception.

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Odysseus (Greek mythology) --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Greek epic poetry --- Epic poetry, Classical --- Greek poetry --- Odysseus (Greek mythology) - Poetry

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Epic poetry, Greek --- Epic poetry, Greek. --- Classical Greek literature --- Poésie épique grecque --- Greek epic poetry --- Epic poetry, Classical --- Greek poetry --- Poésie épique grecque --- Anthologies

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Trojan War --- Guerre de Troie --- Poetry --- Poésie --- Poésie --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Greek epic poetry --- Epic poetry, Classical --- Greek poetry --- Troy (Extinct city)