Abstract

VELEZ UPEGUI, Mauricio. Palatial Singers: A Study on the Figure of the Aoidos in the Odyssey. Folios [online]. 2019, n.50, pp.83-96. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.50-7457.

In this text, partial product of the ongoing research Tragic in Homer? I propose to describe, from a poetical and cultural perspective, the figure of aoidos in Homer, such as its epic role appears in the Odyssey. The premise from which I start and which serves as conjecture for this work is the following: Aoidos is a palace servant who, instead of providing a simple domestic service, sings certain accounts whose content tends to reinforce a determined social order before audiences composed by individuals form the stately class. Given that the conjecture has three parts, three are the sections to distribute this study: a) establishment of similarities and differences between the four aoidos in the text; b) clarification of the singing function of aoidos according to means, manner and instrument of execution c) theme comparison of types of songs as well as the reactions from the different audiences. We finally conclude that when aoidos performs songs that refer to ritual practices, divine or heroic legends, serve as intermediary in a hierarchy divided society in which regular people and noble warriors or travelers cohabitate in a complementary way.

Keywords : Homer; Odyssey; aoidos; songs; audience.

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