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  • Homer in a World of Song

  • from Part I - Homeric Song and Text
  • Edited by Corinne Ondine Pache
  • Edited in association with Casey Dué , University of Houston, Susan Lupack , Macquarie University, Sydney, Robert Lamberton, Washington University, St Louis
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Guide to Homer
    Published online:
    22 February 2020
    Print publication:
    05 March 2020, pp 36-48

  • Summary

    The Iliad and Odyssey from their earliest stages coexisted with smaller performative genres, many involving music (hymns to humans or gods; tunes to accompany work) or music and dance together, as well as paraliterary “genres of speaking” that had neither musical accompaniment nor strict formal rules. A survey of Homeric allusions to, and embedding of, performance events finds them to be further marked by distantiation and imaginative stylization, thus complicating any mining of epic as an historical source for early song-making traditions.