BOOK LAUNCH: FROM HOMER TO HATZI-YAVROUDA: ASPECTS OF ORAL NARRATION IN THE GREEK TRADITION

Please join us for a presentation of the latest volume of Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens.

From Homer to Hatzi-Yavrouda – Aspects of Oral Narration in the Greek Tradition provides a multidisciplinary discussion of the concept of orality in the framework of Greek narrative tradition, from Antiquity to the 21st century.

The volume presents different perspectives and academic fields (classics, byzantine studies, folklore studies, comparative literature) and discusses topics such as interrelationship with written literature, cross-cultural and trans-historical influences, different genres, as well as specific narrators and their role in their communities.

Taking the Greek tradition as a point of departure for a diachronic analysis of orality, from Homer to the female storyteller, Hatzi-Yavrouda from Kos, the book shows that orality, both in its old and new forms, is continuously present in modern and post-modern discourse and still dominates everyday communication, despite our growing dependence on digital and iconic universes.

At the book launch, the editors will present the book and discuss the continuous presence of orality the book uncovers, as well as the ramifications and consequences of this diachronic perspective for our wider understanding of the study of oral literature.