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New Online at the CHS: The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics
The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics, by Christos Tsagalis
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.
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.
Christos Tsagalis is Associate Professor of Greek Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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