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- Title
Homeric Formulas and their Antiquity: A Constructional Study of ἀνδροτῆτα καὶ ἥβην.
- Authors
Bozzone, Chiara
- Abstract
The article presented here employs the new tools of constructional analysis in order to evaluate the antiquity of the famous Homeric expression λιποῦσ' ἀνδροτῆτα καὶ ἥβην 'leaving behind manliness and youth' (Il. 16.858, 22.363), which is usually regarded as a deep archaism preserved within the poetic diction, possibly going back to pre-Mycenaean times. As these new tools suggest that the expression belongs to a recent layer in the poetic technique, and is unlikely to preserve centuries- old linguistic features, this paper explores a scenario of how the aberrant form ἀνδροτῆτα (along with its irregular scansion) might have been created within the ancient written tradition of the text, and it proposes a likely emendation, which is supported by several philological and linguistic considerations.
- Subjects
CONSTRUCTION grammar; DICTION; ORAL tradition
- Publication
Glotta, 2022, Vol 98, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
0017-1298
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/glot.2022.98.1.33