Oral intertextuality is an innate feature of the web of myth, whose
interrelated fabrics allow the audience of epic song to have access to
an entire horizon of diverse variants of a story. The Oral Palimpsest argues
that just as the erased text of a palimpsest still carries traces of
its previous writing, so the Homeric tradition unfolds its awareness of
alternative versions in the act of producing the signs of their erasure.
In this light, “Homer” reflects the concerted effort to create a
Panhellenic canon of epic song, through which we can still retrieve the poikilia (roughly,
“dappled, embroidered variation”) of various interwoven fabrics
belonging to recognizable song-traditions or even older Indo-European
strata.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics, by Christos Tsagalis on the CHS website. The work is also available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press.
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