The Gift of Aphrodite in Iliad 24.30

Antichthon ◽

10.1017/ann.2020.8 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 18-31

Author(s):

Cristian Mancilla

Keyword(s):

Oral Tradition ◽

Story Telling ◽

Artistic Representations ◽

Alternative Version ◽

The Gift ◽

Artistic Works ◽

High Degree

AbstractIn the famous story of Paris’ choice, he favoured the goddess who offered him ‘grievous lust’ (μαχλοσύνην ἀλɛγɛινήν). This is what Homer tells us in Il. 24.30. It has not often been noticed that Cratinus (5th cent. BC) and Lucian (2nd cent. AD) mention another gift – that Aphrodite's bribe was to make Paris irresistible to women. This alternative version happens to correspond to a high degree with several literary and artistic representations of the same story, telling it in a manner that implies or suggests the variant account. This paper argues that the set of instances containing this alternative gift may be based on an actual episode within the oral tradition. Homer himself seems to hint at this link when he refers to the ‘grievous lust’ of Paris. The Homeric reference to the alternative gift was acknowledged by Herbert Rose in 1951, even though he rejected the line in Homer which mentioned the Judgement of Paris (Il. 24.30). This seeming contradiction of Rose's accepting the alternative gift while rejecting the Judgement makes his explanation rather atypical. His uncommon viewpoint, nevertheless, will allow us to identify the presence of this alternative gift in many literary and artistic works, whether explicitly mentioned, implied, or suggested.

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The ‘civic religion’ of the Resistance in post-war Italy

Modern Italy ◽

10.1080/713685680 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 113-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Stephen Gundle

Keyword(s):

Mass Culture ◽

Significant Degree ◽

Artistic Representations ◽

The First World War ◽

Civic Religion ◽

Post War ◽

Economic Boom ◽

The 1960S ◽

High Degree ◽

First World

SummaryThe problem of the legitimacy or otherwise of the Resistance tradition in post-war Italy has been addressed in recent years mainly in terms of the role of the partisan struggle and its political legacy. This article aims to assess the tradition in terms of commemorative practices, rituals, artistic representations and monuments. It seeks to evaluate whether the Resistance gave rise to a civic religion that may be compared to those which existed in the Liberal period, based on the heroic struggles and figures of the Risorgimento, and the Fascist period, which drew on the feelings of loss and injustice that followed the First World War. It is argued that, although the Resistance lacked, prior to the 1960s, a high degree of official sponsorship, it did acquire some of the features of a civic religion. Its appeal was mainly limited to the regions administered by the Left which had seen a significant degree of Resistance activity in 1943-5. Even here, however, it was difficult to sustain the tradition as a key feature of community life during and after the economic boom: the eclipse of public culture, the decline of public mourning and the development of commercial leisure and mass culture all served to deprive it of meaning. Although intellectuals, politicians and ex-partisans reacted to this situation, the visual and rhetorical languages associated with the commemoration of the Resistance became increasingly divorced from everyday life and dominant social values.

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Indeksikalitas dalam Perspektif Antropolinguistik

10.31227/osf.io/r89fw ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Tasnim Lubis

Keyword(s):

Oral Tradition ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Charles Sanders Peirce ◽

Story Telling

Indexicality is a concept which is proposed by Duranti (1997) to analyze the meaning in linguistic studies such as oral tradition, ceremony, speech, story telling and so forth. The objective of this study is to describe the phenomenon that deliberate indexicality due to the its relationship to thecontext. The phenomenon were taken as data randomly. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data through Charles Sanders Peirce theory and supported by others, especially to distinguish propername and indexicality.

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Tackling the Preservation of African Tales in the Technological Era

Handbook of Research on Social, Cultural, and Educational Considerations of Indigenous Knowledge in Developing Countries - Advances in Knowledge Acquisition, Transfer, and Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0838-0.ch020 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 369-382

Author(s):

Diana A. Abankwah ◽

Ruth M. Abankwah

Keyword(s):

Oral Tradition ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

Young Age ◽

Story Telling ◽

Children's Activities ◽

Native Tongue

It appears that the great story-tellers of the Ghanaian society and the traditional singers, bards and griots were the “knowledge houses” of the Ghanaian society. This tradition is slowly dying out in the technological era. This study sought to determine the extent to which the Anansesem oral tradition is still practiced among Ghanaians living outside Ghana, particularly Botswana and Ghana where the study was conducted. The study employed an exploratory qualitative approach using interviews. The findings reveal that although elders and storytellers were able to weave morals into children's activities from a very young age, Ghanaians who were not raised speaking their native tongue find it difficult to relate to the messages woven deeply into the Ananse stories. The study concludes that globalisation has reduced the importance Ghanaians attach to Ananse stories. The authors see a need for strategies to be put in place to resuscitate the oral story telling tradition of Anansesem.

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Indeksikalitas dalam Perspektif Antropolinguistik

10.31227/osf.io/dwa7p ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Tasnim Lubis

Keyword(s):

Oral Tradition ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Charles Sanders Peirce ◽

Story Telling

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Sources de Constantin VII Porphyrogénète concernant le passé le plus ancien des Serbes et des Croates

BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA ◽

10.12681/byzsym.963 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 11

Author(s):

Tibor ŽIVKOVIĆ

Keyword(s):

Oral Tradition ◽

Balkan Peninsula ◽

Literary Genre ◽

Font Size ◽

Administrative Personnel ◽

Imperial Palace ◽

High Commissioner ◽

Historical Text ◽

History Of ◽

High Degree

THE SOURCES OF CONSTANTINE PORPHYROGENITUS CONCERNING THE EARLIEST HISTORY OF THE SERBS AND CROATSThere are eight chapters (29-36) in De Administrando Imperio by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus that contain known historical information on the Slavs of the Balkan Peninsula. Commonly accepted knowledge in historiography tells us that Constantine Porphyrogenitus must have used references on the Serbs, the Croats, and other Slavs from the archives of the Imperial Palace and the verbal accounts of Byzantine administrative personnel who were stationed in Dalmatia. However, our analysis of the earliest historical text on the Serbs and the Croats described in chapters 30, 31 and 32 of the DAI has established that oral tradition could not have been the source of the information on the Serbs or the Croats but rather that Constantine utilized a written source with its approximately dated to around 878.The peculiar style of the source focuses on baptism (Conversio Croatorum et Serborum) and the close ties of the Serbs and the Croats with Rome. This style or literary genre – De conversione – did not exist in Byzantium but was well known during early medieval times in the West. The analysis of the aforementioned chapters of the DAI established a high degree of correlation with parts of the text known in historiography under the title – De conversione Bagoariorum et Carantanorum. The connection between De conversione Bagoariorum et Carantanorum and chapters 30, 31, and 32 of the DAI is easily recognised in the conception of the work, and in the annexed parts by the author. It is our conclusion that we can now take a different path in analysing data on the earliest history of the Serbs and the Croats; it is evident that Constantine Porphyrogenitus used the information collected by an anonymous author who had been employed, very likely, as a high commissioner of the Roman Church.

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When the speaker is a great performer

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics ◽

10.1075/resla.27.2.06err ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 365-381

Author(s):

Elena Errico ◽

Elisa Ballestrazzi

Keyword(s):

Social Psychology ◽

Conversation Analysis ◽

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

Story Telling ◽

Speech Event ◽

The Face ◽

High Degree

This article analyzes an interpreter-mediated speech event from Spanish into Italian. In the case study, the interactional dominance of the main speaker and his communicative style repeatedly challenge the participatory status and the face of the interpreter, who is constantly coping with the speaker’s attempts to involve her in the interaction as an entertainment resource. Although the communicative setting — a book presentation — is typical of conference interpreting events, this encounter was structured unconventionally as an informal story-telling session interspersed with several ad-libs and impromptu conversation exchanges with other participants, all interpreted in the short consecutive mode. The high degree of interactivity that emerged among the participants suggested the adoption of a qualitative multidisciplinary approach which, in addition to conference interpreting research, also draws on dialogue and media interpreting, as well as sister disciplines such as social psychology and conversation analysis in intercultural settings.

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Liminal learning: Social practice in seasonal settlements of western Ireland

Journal of Social Archaeology ◽

10.1177/1469605317708378 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 188-209 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Eugene Costello

Keyword(s):

Social Practice ◽

Oral Tradition ◽

Historical Research ◽

Small Scale ◽

Field Evidence ◽

The Social ◽

Work Routines ◽

Pastoral Communities ◽

Western Ireland ◽

High Degree

This article explores the perception and practice of everyday life at transhumant settlements in western Ireland during the period, c.1750–1920 AD. Small-scale summer transhumance to upland pastures was once widespread in Ireland. Dairy cows would be sent by families to hill and mountain commonages, with herders milking the cows and making butter. Recent archaeological and oral historical research has shown that these people dwelled in small structures known as booley houses, which have a high degree of variability in construction, distribution, and use. Unlike Continental European pastoralism, but similar to Scandinavia, it seems to have been mostly young people who occupied booley sites. With oral tradition and field evidence, this article addresses the social implications of seasonal re-location to liminal landscapes, and how it functioned as a didactic rite of passage. Furthermore, it demonstrates the flexibility of pastoral communities as work routines changed over time at both home and booley.

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HISTORICAL LEGENDS OF WAR WITH ABLAI-TAISHI IN THE MAZAN-BATYR FOLKLORE CYCLE

Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics ◽

10.28995/2658-5294-2020-3-4-54-75 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 54-75

Author(s):

Boris Yu. Sengleev

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Oral Tradition ◽

Analytical Study ◽

Epic Poetry ◽

Folklore Studies ◽

Historical Accuracy ◽

Main Plot ◽

High Degree ◽

Single Combat ◽

Written Sources

The article deals in the historical legends about Mazan-batyr, a popular hero of the Kalmyk folklore, in which he thwarts hostile khan – the rival of the Kalmyk ruler. Although less popular than other types of narratives about that hero, the corresponding texts have been still regularly recorded from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. It appears that by now enough material has been accumulated for an analytical study of such a layer in oral tradition. The main plot of those legends seems to be loosely based on the events of 1671–1672, during when the Khoshut taishi Ablai (Ovla tәәsh) invaded the Kalmyk nomad territories, but was defeated by Ayuka Khan. While there is no evidence that the historical Mazan participated in those events, the folklore accounts often make him one of the central figures in the conflict, usually as the leader of Kalmyk forces who defeats the forces of Ablai, and in a single combat champions over Taishi himself and captures him. This particular discrepancy, as well as the number of other features, is generally viewed as a result of the influence of the oral epic poetry on the legendary narratives. Another interesting feature of the plots is a relatively high degree of historical accuracy, as far as the historical accuracy in folklore studies goes. The most part of the characters in these legends can be correlated with the various figures of Kalmyk history, also a number of the events described in them are confirmed by different written sources, and the tactical techniques used by Mazan-batyr have direct analogues in the traditional warfare of the Mongol people.

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The Somali Conquest of the Horn of Africa

The Journal of African History ◽

10.1017/s0021853700001808 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 213-230 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

I. M. Lewis

Keyword(s):

Oral Tradition ◽

Eastern Africa ◽

Gulf Of Aden ◽

Horn Of Africa ◽

Historical Evidence ◽

Northern Kenya ◽

North Eastern ◽

History Of ◽

High Degree ◽

Broad Outline

One of the most sustained and in its effects far-reaching movements of population in the recent history of North Eastern Africa is the expansion of the Hamitic Somali from the shores of the Gulf of Aden to the plains of Northern Kenya over the last ten centuries. Although written historical evidence is available for only a few periods, oral tradition is so abundant, and from a variety of sources both inside and outside Somaliland, so much in agreement, that it is possible to reconstruct much of this Somali migration, at least in broad outline, with what I believe is a fairly high degree of probability.

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Exploring the language layer of the dānastuti genre

Lingua Posnaniensis ◽

10.2478/linpo-2019-0016 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 61 (2) ◽

pp. 83-105

Author(s):

Georges-Jean Pinault

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Substantial Part ◽

Poetic Language ◽

The Core ◽

Distinct Part ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Gift ◽

Comprehensive Survey ◽

High Degree ◽

Made In

Abstract The linguistic variedness of the ancient Vedic texts is a well-known fact. This can be observed within the Ṛgveda itself, the most ancient collection of hymns, and if one compares the language of the Ṛgveda with that of the Atharvaveda. Glimpses of Vedic dialects can be detected in several passages and words, although the poetic language displays a high degree of convention and normalisation. Among the hymns of the Rigveda few specific features can be attributed to the different families of bards, even though one can surmise that they belonged to different regions of the Vedic world. It is also likely that some families or so-called “branches” were linguistically mixed. The hymns resort to different genres of discourse. The dānastuti, lit. ‘praise of the gift’, marks a distinct part of the poetic competence. The passages in question, which are often limited to a single stanza, although others are more developed, making up a substantial part of the poem, are devoted to praise of the generosity of the patron, who is expected to reward the poet appropriately for his work. A comprehensive survey of these parts of the hymns of the Rigveda was made in the dissertation of Manilal Patel (1929), a student of Karl F. Geldner. This meritorious book describes mostly cultural, historical and ritual features. On the other hand, the familiar, and in cases crude or mischievous, tone of these pieces has been noted by several commentators of the Rigveda. It would be too simple, however, to consider that these parts faithfully reflect everyday speech. The paper aims to explore the linguistic traits of the dānastutis which contrast with the standard layer of the Ṛgvedic language at all levels: phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary. On the level of stylistics and poetics, it will be shown that the phraseology of the dānastutis relies on sophisticated devices derived from the standard phraseology which was used otherwise for the praise of the gods and goddesses in the core of the hymns.

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