EinführungNachdem man sich am Übergang zum dritten Jahrtausend endgültig vom Glauben an die Aufklärung und die damit verbundene alleinseligmachende Rationalität verabschiedet hat, können andere Vorstellungen und Ansätze, die durchaus bereits in vormodernen Kunst-und Literaturformen, obgleich in anderer diskursiver Formation, virulent waren, auch für das aktuelle Denken Einfluß gewinnen.1 Hier denke ich vor allem an die Religion und an religiöse Äußerungsformen wie Mythos, Performativität und Ritualität. Während lange Zeit als Dogma galt, daß sich der griechische Geist "vom Mythos zum Logos" entwickelt habe, setzt sich allmählich allgemein die Erkenntnis durch, daß beide Bereiche sich gegenseitig bedingen und man zum Teil sogar von einer gegenwendigen Entwicklung sprechen kann. 2Die postulierte Entwicklung von religiösen, kultischen Anfängen hin zu rein säkularen Spiel-und Literaturformen hat sich also ihrerseits als moderne mythische Erzählung erwiesen. Gerade im frühen Griechenland, aber auch in Ägypten und im Vorderen Orient, gibt es keine moderne Aufspaltung in einen säkularen Bereich der Öffentlichkeit und Politik auf der einen, in eine Sphäre der Religion auf der anderen Seite. In einer weitgehend oral geprägten traditionellen Gesellschaft bilden Mythos und Ritual den wichtigsten Bezugspunkt, das heißt den Makrotext, nach dem die Menschen ihr Leben und Denken ausrichten.3 Die künstlerischen Äuße-rungsformen sind dementsprechend nicht I 'art pour I 'art, sondern einge-
Two Separate Traditions of Research? (1-3) 1.2 Focus on Composition and Crisis: 1930-1980 (4-5) 1.3 Reactions and Strategies Until the Late 1980s (6-10) 1.4 Innovations around the 1980s (11) 2. New Oral Poetry 2.1 Steps to a New Oral Poetics (12) 2.2 Communication, Audience Orientation and Performance (13-14) 2.3 Theme not Meter (15-16) 2.4 Oral and Written Discourse (17-18) 2.5 Discourse and mýthos (19-20) 3. The Evolutionary Model 3.1 Tradition as Language, Diachrony in Synchrony (21) 3.2 Ages of Homer (22-23) 3.3 Panhellenization and Agonistics (24-28) 3.4 A Summary of the Evolutionary Model, Modifications and Response to Criticism (29-31) 3.5 Consequences 3.5.1 Neounitarian Quality and Malleability (32-35) 3.5.2 Traditional Art as an Oral Poetics of Ellipsis (36-37) 3.6 Relevance to Today: Multiforms, Web and Hypertext (38-40) 4. Further Topics and Related Themes 4.1 Biography (41) 4.2 Politics and Value Orientation (42) 4.3 Etymologies (43) 4.4 Myth (44-46) 4.5 Ritual (47-49) 4.6 Hero Cult and Epic Heroes (50-53) 4.7 Possible Influences from the Near East: Oriental Myths and Narratives (54-59) 4.8 Mise en abyme and Metanarrative Reflection (60-62) 4.9 Memory (63) 5. Conclusion and Prospect (64) Brought to you by | Universitaetsbibliothek Basel Authenticated Download Date | 12/19/17 11:13 AM With the new revised English edition of this commentary we seize upon a unique opportunity to add a new chapter to the Prolegomena (NTHS). This section closes the gap, especially between the chapters COM and FOR, that has widened since the early 1990s, or even the late 1980s, when the commentary project was first planned. At the same time, it attempts to embrace new approaches, in line with the German edition's spirit of accounting for the entirety of Homeric scholarship (COM 42). In particular, we wish to address the Anglophone reader. At the beginning of the project, Latacz still spoke of two completely separate mainstreams, German-speaking and Anglophone scholarship (COM 25, 27), despite their tendencies toward convergence. One major goal of the original edition was to familiarize the German reader with English-speaking scholarship and to bring both lines to a fruitful synthesis (COM 42), as a complement to the Cambridge commentary. But I would no longer pessimistically say that our commentary was merely a German counterpart to the Cambridge commentary, a work designed to overcome the danger of standing on only one side of the great divide. The holistic scholarship to come, Latacz maintained, could make deeper and more synthetic sense of the original text (COM 27). I would assert that convergence has increased considerably since then, and that to some extent the present English edition actually represents this totalizing, synthetic tool for the beginning of the 21st century. Why has Homeric scholarship, unlike any other field, fused into a unified international community? In today's globalized world, English has become the lingua franca-whether or not we ought to regret this fact cannot be discussed here. Because of th...
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