Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition Kahane Ahuvia
Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition Kahane Ahuvia In Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition author Ahuvia…
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Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition Kahane Ahuvia
In Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition author Ahuvia Kahane considers central aspects of Homer's poetry, such as truth, knowledge, gender, virtue and the heroic code, authorship, memory and song, diction and formula. On the one hand performativity allows Homeric epic form to enact diverse claims and agendas in specific historical, cultural, and political contexts. This book makes the case for performative, rather than essential values in the Illiad and the Odyssey.
No individual performers or group of historical interpreters can thus claim exclusive authority over the song and its contents i.e. On the other hand, the performative character of Homer's values implies radical resistance to fixity of reference, forms of meaning, and patterning, etc. over its truth, knowledge, social codes, its diction, authorship, etc.
The interaction of
Authority and the Individual