Rethinking Orality IV: Greek Epic Poetry and Some Storytelling Traditions

The oral storytelling traditions still alive and practiced in Sicily offer valuable ethnographic data for a better understanding of traditional storytelling methods and practices. They also lend themselves to being investigated in comparison to the Greek epic traditions of Archaic and Classical periods, providing highly useful comparative material for better defining certain issues relevant to historical reconstruction (techniques and methods of execution, horizontal and vertical transmissi...