Forgotten Scholarship: Gustav Adolf Schöll, Herodotus, and Greek Oracular Poetry

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6547
dc.contributor.author	Giangiulio Maurizio
dc.title	Forgotten Scholarship: Gustav Adolf Schöll, Herodotus, and Greek Oracular Poetry
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	Schöll’s thesis that there was a network of epic narratives with legendary and oracular contents written by chresmologues and prophets can no longer be supported. We should admit, instead, that the oracular stories about the local past that Schöll most acutely detected were in most cases handed down by work of mouth. Oral tradition – or, rather, ‘semi-oral’ – must be given pre-eminence over chresmological epic. Still, Schöll had insights of the greatest importance concerning the oracular tradition in Herodotus. Today, we can realise it far better than the philologists of his times and the great scholars of Herodotus who came after him have been able to do.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antichistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Filologia e letteratura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-12-16
dc.dateAccepted	2021-06-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-05-17
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-549-0/forgotten-scholarship-gustav-adolf-scholl-herodotu/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-548-3/033
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-549-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-548-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Delphic verse oracles
dc.subject	Delphic verse oracles
dc.subject	Herodotus
dc.subject	Herodotus
dc.subject	Local traditions
dc.subject	Local traditions
dc.subject	Oracular poetry
dc.subject	Oracular poetry

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Forgotten Scholarship: Gustav Adolf Schöll, Herodotus, and Greek Oracular Poetry

Maurizio Giangiulio Università di Trento

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Schöll’s thesis that there was a network of epic narratives with legendary and oracular contents written by chresmologues and prophets can no longer be supported. We should admit, instead, that the oracular stories about the local past that Schöll most acutely detected were in most cases handed down by work of mouth. Oral tradition – or, rather, ‘semi-oral’ – must be given pre-eminence over chresmological epic. Still, Schöll had insights of the greatest importance concerning the oracular tradition in Herodotus. Today, we can realise it far better than the philologists of his times and the great scholars of Herodotus who came after him have been able to do.

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16 Dicembre 2021

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23 Giugno 2021

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17 Maggio 2021

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978-88-6969-549-0

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978-88-6969-548-3

Keywords: Delphic verse oracles • Local traditions • Herodotus • Oracular poetry

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