Winged Word: A Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek Oral by Berkeley Peabody

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This layering implies developmental sequence that can actually have occurred only in chronological time. The present study derives such a temporal sequence from the comparison of Iranian, Indian, and Greek metrics. This sequence is not presented as history, since it is far too relative to stand as fact (though it may suggest historical inquiry). The sequence is used to facilitate the description of habits that play diachronically controlling roles in the traditional compositional process; for, like language itself, oral traditions are cultural institutions that are internalized.

Since no text of the epos explicitly tells us what we need to know, the present study embodies results derived by a kind of triangulation from three separate areas of investigation. (1) The complex fact of the text itself provides the only direct evidence, every detail of which must be accommodated by any interpretation or theory. (2) Oral theory (the knowledge of oral composition gained from the observation and analysis of the singing of actual bards) provides criteria for textual analysis and insights into the dynamics of oral compositional processes.

2. Greek language Style. 3. Oral tradition. I. Title. 01'09 75-4842 ISBN 0-87395-159-X Page v Contents Foreword by Albert B. Lord xi Preface xv 1. The Approach Oral Theory and the Epos Oral Theory and Its Tests 1 Problems of Oral Theory for the Epos 2 The Method of the Winged Word The Works and Days as an Exemplar Text 9 Comparison as a Tool for Diachronic Analysis 11 Form Versus Language The Classical Description of the Hexameter 14 Problems of Classical Description for Oral Theory 16 Form as Language Evolutionary Metrics 19 Comparative and Phonological Metrics 21 Ancient Indo-European Metrics The Relating of Iranian, Indian, and Greek Meters 24 Quantity and Syllable Count 26 Page vi 2.

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