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Index
Achilles, 2, 7, 48, 61, 78–79, 106, 107, 114, 123, 131, 138–145, 151–152
Aelian, 73, 74, 78
Aesop, 136
African traditions, 14, 29, 55, 59–61
Agamemnon, 78, 138–142
Ajax, 106, 138–143
Alcaeus, 55, 110
alēthēs ‘true,’ alētheia ‘truth,’ 122–128
Alexandria, 3, 5, 38, 95
Alexandrian scholars, 3, 38, 88, 95–101
“all grammars leak,” 9
Anacreon, 81
anagnōstēs ‘one who reads out loud,’ 98–99
“analyst” approaches to Homer, 19, 86, 93–94, 115, 133–134. See also “unitarian” approaches to Homer
Andromache, 57, 119
anthropology, applications of, 9–10, 15–17, 30–31, 50, 114, 116–118, 127, 130, 132, 135, 137, 149
aoidos ‘singer,’ 55, 58, 82, 84, 87–90
Apollo, 88, 116
Apollodorus, 105
Apollonius of Rhodes, 3
Archilochus, dating of, 111; (F 286–287), 145
Argos, 106
Aristarchus, 3, 42, 88, 96–98, 103, 114
Aristophanes of Athens, 5
Aristophanes of Byzantium, 96
Aristotle, 1, 2, 37, 128
Poetics: (1447a13), 38; (1448b27), 32–34, 61; (1459b1–7), 38
Rhetoric: (1375b30), 105; (F 166), 2; (611.10), 72
Asclepiades of Myrlea, 95
Athena, 115–116, 131
Athenaeus, (3a), 66; (634c), 4
Athens, 42–43, 52, 65–66, 71–75, 80–81, 94–95, 100–101, 106, 108, 110
Athenians, 66, 73–75, 94, 96, 99–100, 102, 104–105, 109–110, 130
Athenodorus, 73
Atticus, 98
Aubignac, abbé d,’ 39
audience, and relationship to performer, 17, 20, 25, 33, 36, 40–41, 43, 47, 52, 54–55, 57–60, 62–63, 77, 123, 132, 138, 151–152
author, concepts of, 1, 19, 27, 31, 38, 46, 80, 84, 85, 89, 94, 111–112
 
Bagre, 40
Bible, 71
“big bang” models for genesis of epic, 70, 73, 83, 92–93
blame, poetics of, 36, 61. See also praise
Bororo, 118–119, 135
 
Callimachus, 72, 150
carpenter, metaphors of, 90–91. See also joiner
Cattle Raid of Cúailnge, 70
“Changing Woman,” 79
Chios, 4, 72, 75, 85, 100; as birthplace of Homer, 4, 85
Cicero, 73–74, 95, 103
composition (vs. performance), 1, 5, 17–21, 24–27, 29–37, 39, 41, 44–45, 55, 57, 63, 65–69, 76, 79, 81, 83–84, 89, 92–94, 102, 109–111, 119, 132–133, 137
composition-in-performance, 17, 19, 29–31, 33–34, 36, 39–40
compression (vs. expansion), 76–77
Contest of Homer and Hesiod, 85
cross-referencing, mechanics of (in oral poetics), 82, 130–131, 133
crystallization, metaphor of, 109
culture hero, 21, 75, 92–93, 105, 112, 130
Cycle, epic, 22, 38, 41, 89–90, 115, 133, 135
Cypria, 38, 79, 133
 
Demetrius of Phalerum, 42
dēmiourgos ‘itinerant artisan,’ 55, 90
Demodokos, 85
diachronic (vs. synchronic), 10, 17–18, 20–21, 23, 26, 82–83, 88, 133, 150
“diachronic skewing,” 20
dictation, models of, 31–34, 37, 39, 88, 100, 108–110
Dieuchidas, 104, 105
diffusion (vs. composition and performance), 18, 22, 27, 29–30, 32, 37–41, 43–44, 46, 48–49, 51–55, 60, 63, 102, 109, 111
diffusion-in-performance, 30
Diogenes Laertius, 75, 81, 94, 101–102, 104–105
Draupadī, 53
 
“eccentric” papyri, 96
economy, tendency of, 18, 25
Ephorus, 72
epigram, evidence for oral poetics, 14, 35–36
episode, concepts of, 59, 77–78, 82, 88, 101
epos (epea) ‘poetic utterance,’ 81, 84–85, 87, 90, 120–122, 127–128
Eratosthenes, 3, 150
etymology, concepts of, 9
Eustathius, 86, 87
evolutionary models, 27, 39–43, 45, 47, 63, 70, 73, 77, 82–83, 92, 96, 100, 102, 104, 106, 109–111
exemplar, concepts of, 146
exemplum, concepts of, 113, 131, 133, 137, 139, 141, 146
expansion (vs. compression), 76–77
 
Ferdowsi, 70
fieldwork, concepts of, 16–17, 20, 29, 33, 43, 96, 117
“Five Ages of Homer,” 41, 42
fixation of text, 31, 39–40, 43, 45, 69, 76, 83, 92–93, 108–110
fluid (vs. rigid/static/stable) stages in evolution of epic, 26, 41, 42, 46, 109
formula, concepts of, 18, 22–25, 124, 134, 137, 142
François Vase, 107
free variant, concept of, 25
 
Gorgias, 68
Greek Anthology, 73
Grote, George, 39
Guiron le courtois, 70
 
Hektor, 2, 36, 57, 119
Helen, 68, 79
Hera, 48, 115, 116, 131
Herakles, 47, 48, 145
hero, concepts of, 44–51, 53–54, 56–58, 61, 78, 92, 123, 132, 135, 139–141, 143, 145, 151; hērōs ‘hero,’ 48
Herodotus, (1.31.5), 48; (2.123.3), 67; (4.195.2), 67; (5.90.2), 65, 72; (6.14.1), 67; (6.26.1–2), 4; (6.27.1), 4; (6.27.2), 4; (6.31–32), 4; (7.142.1), 66; (7.214.3), 67; (7.6.3), 73, 104–105; (7.6.5), 105
Hesiod, 31, 41, 88, 89, 111, 125, 133; dating of, 111; Muses of, 125; as rhapsode, 89; as rival of Homer, 88
Theogony: (25), 125; (27–28), 124; (28), 124–126
Works and Days: (528), 39; (F 357), 88
Hipparkhos, 74, 80–81, 88
Hipponax, 150
Holy Grail, 71
Homer (Homēros), 21, 38, 85, 89–91, 112; as culture hero, 112; as rhapsode, 89; as rival of Hesiod, 88
Iliad: (1), 116, 141; (1.273), 123, 152; (1.320–321), 139; (1.327), 139–140; (1.334), 140; (1.338), 140; (1.341), 140; (1.396–406), 114, 116, 131; (1.400), 116; (2), 105; (2.376), 141; (2.530), 39; (2.653–670), 106; (4.110), 90; (5.231), 90; (5.722), 89; (6.168), 14; (6.176), 14; (6.178), 14; (6.381), 123; (6.382), 123–124; (6.89–90), 14; (7.89–90), 36; (9), 138, 141, 144, 152; (9.168), 139; (9.168–170), 139, 141–142; (9.170), 139; (9.182), 139–141, 145; (9.182–183), 143–144; (9.183), 145; (9.192), 141, 143–144; (9.196), 143; (9.196–198), 140; (9.197), 140; (9.197–198), 143–145; (9.198), 141; (9.223), 142; (9.224), 142; (9.225–306), 142; (9.259), 123, 152; (9.311), 143; (9.312), 141, 143; (9.312–313), 140, 143; (9.413), 7; (9.520–523), 141; (9.527), 123; (9.527–528), 151; (9.624–636), 143; (9.642), 143; (9.688–689), 140; (10.249–250), 61; (17.1–113), 106; (17.387), 138; (18.54–60), 48; (19.95–133), 47; (20.200), 128; (20.204), 128; (20.249), 128; (20.250), 128; (20.256), 128; (21), 145; (21.237), 146; (23.305), 142; (23.340), 89; (23.712), 90; (24.29–30), 61; (24.25–26), 116; (24.540), 48
Odyssey: (1), 20; (3), 43; (8.73–82), 141; (8.74), 85; (8.75), 141; (8.475–476), 142; (14.439), 142; (17.281), 142; (17.381–385), 55, 90
Homeric Hymn to Apollo, 21, 85; Hymn to Demeter, 48, 124
Homeridai (Homēridai) ‘sons of Homer,’ 72, 75, 84–86, 100
 
immanence, 82
improvisation, concepts of, 26, 29, 103
innovation, concepts of, 19, 25, 83, 116, 131
inscriptions, poetic, 35–36, 65, 109
Ion the rhapsode, 92
Isocrates, 75, 76
 
joiner, metaphors of, 90–92
 
Kirghiz, 34, 58–59, 109
Koran, 71
Kreophyleioi, 72, 75
Kreophylos, 72, 100
Kṛṣṇa, 46, 49
kúklos ‘cycle, chariot wheel,’ 38, 89
Kynaithos, 85, 110
 
Lachmann, Karl, 39
lament, forms of, 61, 119, 120
langue (vs. parole), 15
lawgiver, models of, 21, 72–75, 81, 102, 105
lēth-‘forget,’ 122–127, 152
Library of Alexandria, 3, 38, 95
Library of Pergamum, 73
linguistics, applications of, 9–10, 15–17, 25, 119–120, 128–129
Little Iliad, 38
Lord, Albert B., 10–11, 13–14, 16–17, 19–20, 24–26, 29–33, 38, 132–134, 137
Lycurgus of Athens, 42, 52, 75, 94, 99
Lycurgus of Sparta, 72–75, 78, 103
 
Mahābhārata, 45–47, 53
Manding, 59–60
marked. See unmarked
Meleagros, 123, 151
memorization, concepts of, 26
mimesis (mimēsis), 85, 133
mnē-‘recall, remember,’ 122–123, 126–127, 151–152
“monumental” epic, 30, 32, 45, 76–77, 92, 110, 119
mouvance, concepts of, 69
Muse(s), 3–4, 61, 124, 125
Museum of Alexandria, 2, 3, 5. See also Library of Alexandria
mūthos, meanings and applications of, 119–125, 127–133, 152
 
Nepos, 98
Nestor, 42, 43, 61, 139, 141
numerus versuum, concept of, 97
 
occasion, models of, 5, 9, 41, 54, 56–60, 62–63, 66, 69, 77, 81, 115, 119, 136–137
Odysseus, 106–107, 138–144
Onomakritos, 73, 104–105
oral traditions, 4, 13–20, 22–27, 29–34, 37, 40, 43–47, 51–53, 57–60, 62–63, 67–68, 70–71, 76–77, 82, 96, 101, 109–111, 117, 132–136, 143, 147
Ovid, 91
 
Pābūjī, 49, 51, 62, 71, 77
paideia, concepts of, 5, 8
Panaetius, 3
pan-a-ōrios ‘the untimeliest of them all,’ 48
Panathenaia, 42–43, 52, 69, 75, 80–81, 93, 94, 100, 102, 106, 108, 110
“Panathenaic rule,” 75, 81–82, 101
pan-Hellenic models, 39–42, 48, 52–54, 63, 124–125, 128
pan-Indian models, 44, 50–53
paradigm, concepts of, 113–114, 116, 133, 135, 137
“paradigm shift,” 114
paranagignōskō ‘read out loud as a model,’ 99
parole (vs. langue), 15
Parry, Milman, 10–11, 13–14, 18–20, 23–25, 29–31, 38, 96, 132–134
Patroklos, 2, 78, 107
Paulus ex Festo, 146
Pausanias, 73
“Peisistratean Recension,” 67, 70, 74, 93, 94, 95, 96, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104
Peisistratidai, 42–43, 65–69, 72–75, 81, 88, 96, 100–103, 105–106, 108, 110
Peisistratos, son of Nestor, 42–43
Peisistratos the Athenian, 43, 65–66, 73–75, 78, 81, 83, 88, 99, 101, 103–105
performance (vs. composition), 3–5, 8–10, 13, 16–21, 25–37, 39–45, 47–52, 54–60, 62–63, 65–71, 75–77, 80–85, 88, 92–94, 99–105, 108–112, 117–121, 132–133, 147, 149, 151
performative, concepts of, 17, 67, 70, 132
Pergamum, 73–74, 95
Pericles, 75–76
Phemios, 20, 89
Philochorus, 88, 111
philology, concepts of, 3–5, 7–9, 150–152
Phoenix, 106, 123, 138–142, 144, 151
Pindar, 61, 125
Isthmian: (8.56–60), 61
Olympian: (1.29–30), 122; (1.30), 123; (7.19), 106
Parthenia: (2.16), 143; (F 179), 86
Pythian: (2.1), 85; (2.1–3), 84, 86–87; (3.112–114), 90; (7.23), 123; (7.23–25), 122; (8.23), 143
Pittakos, 110
Plato, 1, 150
Hipparchus: (228b), 74–75, 94–95, 101–102; (228b–229d), 80; (228b–c), 81; (228d), 66
Ion: 82; (533c), 89; (533d–536d), 21, 92
Phaedrus: (252b), 85
Protagoras: 5
Republic: (600d), 89
Plutarch:
Life of Lycurgus: (4), 75; (4.4), 72
Life of Pericles: (13.6), 75
Life of Solon: (10), 105
Lives of the Ten Orators: (841f), 99
Polykrates, 66
Porphyry, 1–2
Poseidon, 115–116, 131
praise, poetics of, 36, 59–63. See also blame
Proclus, 38, 96, 115
prooimion ‘prelude,’ 59, 84–85
 
Quintilian, 86
 
Rajasthan, 44, 47, 49–50, 62, 71
Rāma, 46, 49
Rāmāyaṇa, 45–47, 51
recomposition-in-performance, 34, 68, 70, 82, 109
replicant, 92
rhapsode (rhapsōidos), 75–76, 80–89, 91–93, 98–99, 101–104, 109–111
Rhodes, 106
Rig-Veda, 90
Roland, Song of, 103
 
Samos, 66, 72, 75
Sappho, 57, 110
scholia to Dionysius Thrax, 83
scholia to Iliad, (1.399–406), 115; (1.400), 115–116; (2.557), 105; (21.237), 145
scholia to Pindar (Nemean 2.1d), 83, 85, 88
screening, poetics of, 58, 135
script, concepts of, 32, 33, 34, 68, 94
scriptorium, 97, 98
Seven Sages, 73–74, 103
sewing, metaphors of, 83–89, 91, 93
Shāhnāma, 70
Sigeion, 110
Simonides, 81, 86
Solon, 74, 75, 81, 101, 102, 104, 105
Sophocles, 5; as composer and performer, 4–5
Oedipus at Colonus: 129, 130
souffleur, model of, 98
South Slavic traditions, 17, 20, 29, 33
Sparta, 71–75, 78, 103
speech-act, concepts of, 35–36, 67, 119–125, 127, 132–133, 144, 151–152
Strabo, 72, 85, 105
Suetonius, 3, 150
Sunjata, 59–61
synchronic (vs. diachronic), 17–18, 20–21, 23, 26, 82
 
tailor, metaphors of, 91, 92
“terminal prestige,” 5
text, concepts of, 3, 5, 8–9, 13, 16–17, 19–20, 29–34, 37, 39–40, 42–43, 45, 54, 63, 65–66, 68–71, 73–74, 77, 79, 82–83, 86–87, 93–111, 133, 137–139
textile, metaphors of, 86, 91
textualization, 40, 43, 69, 100, 102, 105, 108, 109
textus, 86
Thales, 73
theme, concepts of, 18, 23–24, 59, 76, 133, 137, 138, 144
Theognis, 55, 111
thrift, tendency of, 18, 25
Thucydides, 85
Tiv, 15, 40
tradition, concepts of, 9–10, 14–16, 19, 21–22, 25, 27, 40, 116, 133, 136, 142, 146–147, 149
transcript, concepts of, 34–36, 42, 65–69, 100–101, 109, 111, 117
Tyrtaeus, 111
Tzetzes, 73, 105
 
“unitarian” approaches to Homer, 19, 86, 93, 134. See also “analyst” approaches to Homer
unity, concepts of (in oral poetics), 1, 19, 26, 27, 30, 40, 43, 52, 81, 86, 87, 102, 111, 137
unmarked (vs. marked), 119–122, 124–125, 127–129
Urform, 133
 
variant, concepts of, 25, 57, 96, 98, 116, 124, 133, 137, 138, 139, 145, 146
Vedas, 71
Virgil, 91
 
weaving, metaphors of, 86, 89, 91
weighting, even vs. uneven, 77–80, 82, 88
wheel, metaphors of, 89, 90, 91, 92
“wild papyri,” 96
Wolf, Friedrich August, 39
women’s oral traditions, 56–57, 61