Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

J. de Hoz. "Poesia oral independi ente de Homero en Hesiodo y los hymnos homéricos." Emerita, 32:283-98.

Argues that while Hesiod's language grows out of the Homeric tradition, the content of his work marks him as a poet of great originality who realized a synthesis of inor ganic elements in a new type of poem, the Theogony. Notes Hesiod's peculiar use of genealogy and myth in this connection, as well as his emphasis on women, features more typical of Oriental than Greek tradition. On the basis of this evidence, he postula tes the roots of Hesiodic tradition to be ultimately Mycenaean, in an ancient religious poetry linked to the Orient which developed a diction very similar to but separate from that of the heroic epic.
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