Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Richard P. Martin. "Hesiod, Odysseus, and the Instruction of Princes." Transactions of the American Philological Association, 114:29-48.

Reinterprets the crux involving the two related passages at Theogony 79-93 and Odyssey 8.166-77 as parallel elements that "can be said to share a commen genre, which generates the similar phrases in each place" (30). By comparaing the Old Irish genre of tecosc ("instruction"), he argues that both the Hesiodic and the Homeric passages are instances of Prince-Instruction and that this generic matrix serves as a kind of deep structure for the common phraseology.
Area: AG, LT, OI, CP