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This is the second volume on the mechanisms of oral communication in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry, a genre with deep roots in orality. Considering the critical debate about orality and its influence on the composition, diffusion and transmission of the archaic epic poems, the survey provides a reconsideration and a reassessment of the traces of orality in the archaic epic poetry, following their adaptation in the synchronic and diachronic changes of the communicative system. Combining the methods of cognitive science, and the historical and literary analysis of the texts, the research explores the complexity of the literary message of the Greek epic poetry, highlighting its position in a system of oral communication. The consideration of structural and formal aspects, i.e. the traces of orality in the narrative architecture, in the epic diction, in the meter and the formulaic system, as well as the vestiges of the mixture of orality and writing, allows to reconstruct a dynamic frame of communicative modalities which influenced and enriched the archaic epic poetry, providing it with expressive potentialities destined to a longlasting permanence in the history of the genre.

Andrea Ercolani and Laura Lulli
Introduction: Orality and Epic Poetry. Old Questions and New Perspectives ...VII
Elizabeth Minchin
Mind-based Research Meets the Homeric Epics: Looking Again at Communicative Strategies in the Homeric Epics ...1
Egbert J. Bakker
Interformulaic Homer: Evidence from the “Wild” Papyri ...19
Albio Cesare Cassio
Two Chronological Extremes of the Homeric Language: πρόφρασσα and εἶπα ...41
Chiara Bozzone
Technologies of Orality: Formularity, Meter, and Kunstsprache in Homer ...51
Giampiero Scafoglio
A Cyclic Theme in the Odyssey: The Oresteia in Zeus’ Speech (1, 28–43) ...83
Jonathan S. Burgess
Audiences of the Prophecy of Tiresias in Odyssey Book XI ...103
Silvia Quadrelli
Traces of Orality in the Histories: The Homeric ‘Heritage’ in Herodotean Battles and Speeches ...117
Laura Lulli
Some Reflections on Orality and Epic Poetry in Ancient Literary Criticism ...145
Richard Hunter
Homer and ‘the Elegists’: an Ancient Construction of Difference ...165
Sonja Zeman
Paradoxes of ‘Orality’: A Comparison between Homeric Oral Poetry and the Heroic and Courtly Epics in Middle High German ...177
Franco Montanari
Epos and Orality: Conclusive Remarks and Open Questions ...207
Index Notable Things ...213
Index Discussed Passages ...217