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BYZANTINE ORAL POETRY

BYZANTINE ORAL POETRY I.ABTEILUNG ORAL P O E T R Y C. A. T R Y P A N I S / O X F O R D The object of the present paper is to draw attention to the fact - a fact of salient importance and so far on the whole neglected - that in the late Byzantine period we find a large body of oral poetry, which flourished mainly in the Greek lands occupied by the Francs. This oral tradition, the tradition of a poetry directed towards an audience that was not a "reading" audience1 educated in the Byzantine archaizing schools, was responsible for the introduction of the spoken idiom into Greek literature. The roots of this Greek literary demotic lie with this significant Byzantine oral tradition. It is quite natural that the oral theory, s it is called, is known best to classicists, who have been examining Homer from that point of view since the days of Milman Parry. More recently the theory has attracted the attention of medievalists, of scholars in Old English (in particular in connection with Beowulf] and those concerned with the Chanson de Roland? If, s appears probable, there was a flourishing Western http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Byzantinische Zeitschrift de Gruyter

BYZANTINE ORAL POETRY

TRYPANIS, C. A.
Byzantinische Zeitschrift , Volume 56 (1) – Jan 1, 1963
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de Gruyter
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0007-7704
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10.1515/byzs.1963.56.1.1
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I.ABTEILUNG ORAL P O E T R Y C. A. T R Y P A N I S / O X F O R D The object of the present paper is to draw attention to the fact - a fact of salient importance and so far on the whole neglected - that in the late Byzantine period we find a large body of oral poetry, which flourished mainly in the Greek lands occupied by the Francs. This oral tradition, the tradition of a poetry directed towards an audience that was not a "reading" audience1 educated in the Byzantine archaizing schools, was responsible for the introduction of the spoken idiom into Greek literature. The roots of this Greek literary demotic lie with this significant Byzantine oral tradition. It is quite natural that the oral theory, s it is called, is known best to classicists, who have been examining Homer from that point of view since the days of Milman Parry. More recently the theory has attracted the attention of medievalists, of scholars in Old English (in particular in connection with Beowulf] and those concerned with the Chanson de Roland? If, s appears probable, there was a flourishing Western

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Published: Jan 1, 1963

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