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Rethinking Orality IV: Greek Epic Poetry and Some Storytelling Traditions

Rethinking Orality IV: Greek Epic Poetry and Some Storytelling Traditions

Ercolani, Andrea
Macrì, Sonia
Piergrossi, Alessandra

Hardcover

Series: Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media, Book 10

Literary CriticismAncient History General

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 30, 2026

ISBN10: 3111624269
ISBN13: 9783111624266
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Nov 30 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.10
Language: English

The oral storytelling traditions still alive and practiced in Sicily offer valuable ethnographic data for a better understanding of traditional storytelling methods and practices. They also lend themselves to being investigated in comparison to the Greek epic traditions of Archaic and Classical periods, providing highly useful comparative material for better defining certain issues relevant to historical reconstruction (techniques and methods of execution, horizontal and vertical transmission, improvisation, formularity, variation, etc.).The best-known traditional Sicilian storytelling and playtelling practices (e.g. the 'Cunto', the storytelling acted out by puppets, the 'orbi' singing tradition, etc.) are still relatively unknown and unexplored in studies on orality in the ancient world. Instead, they offer a valuable touchstone for reasoning about narration in the Homeric poems and, more generally, about the practices of 'traditional storytelling' in Archaic and Classical Greece, which was dominated by a system of communication based primarily on orality.

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