Inaug.-Diss.--Heidelberg. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 187-193.

Report (M.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (University of Texas Digital Repository, viewed on Sept. 22, 2009) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis argues that the defining characteristic of intra-familial relationships in both the Iliad and the Odyssey is inequality. Homeric relationship pairs that are presented positively are strongly marked by an uneven distribution of power and authority, and when family members do not subscribe to this ideology, the result is a dysfunctional relationship that is condemned by the poet and used as a negative paradigm for his characters. Moreover, the inequality favoured by the epics proceeds according to strict role-based rules with little scope for innovation according to personality, meaning that determination of authority is simple in the majority of cases. Wives are expected to submit themselves to their husbands, sons to their fathers, and less powerful brothers to their more dominant siblings. This rigid hierarchy does create the potential for problems in some general categories of relationship, and relations between mothers and sons in particular are strained in both epics, both because of the shifting power dynamic between them caused by the son’s increasing maturity and independence from his mother and her world, and because of Homeric epic’s persistent conjunction of motherhood with death. This category of familial relationships is portrayed in the epics as doomed to failure, but others are able to be depicted positively through adhering to the inequality that is portrayed in the epics as both natural and laudable. / I will also argue that this systemic pattern of inequality can be understood as equivalent to the Homeric concept of homophrosyne (“like-mindedness”), a term which, despite its appearance of equality, in fact refers to a persistent inequality. Accordingly, for a Homeric relationship to be portrayed as successful, one partner must submit to the other, adapting themselves to the other’s outlook and aims, and subordinating their own ideals and desires. Through this, they are able to become “like-minded” with their partners, achieving something like the homophrosyne recommended for husbands and wives in the Odyssey.

Inaug.-Diss.--Zürich. / Lebenslauf.

Thesis--University of Pennsylvania. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. ix-xi) and index.

The study proposes that oral-traditonnal cultures, or cultures with a high degree of orality, use similar processes to hide political or social subversion in text. To test this hypothesis, the author examines three texts from three highly oral cultures: a tractate of the Babylonian Talmud, Homer's Odyssey and Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent. The author finds that in all three texts subversion is concealed according to what she defines as the three principles of disguise: articulation, by which a text hides secondary meaning through its use of diction and syntax; construction, by which a text incorporates hidden transcripts or meaning within its narrative or textual structure; and diversion, by which a text directs the audience away from subversive meaning by focusing attention on other elements. All three principles of disguise exploit the relationship between the written text and the oral-traditional environment in which the text was used. The three-principle model of disguise enables us to set in comparative perspective relationships between the processes of communication and resistance in diverse cultures, and offers significant opportunities for comparative study. The author concludes that texts from diverse cultures may be employed similarly as extensions of oral tradition, especially when there is a need to conceal particular ideas from a dominant hegemony, and that reading these texts "against the grain" for evidence of subsurface subversion promises a deeper insight into both the function of text as a tool of resistance and the dynamics of human power relationships. / Graduate

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Diss. / Filmed with: Aeschylus / Tragoediae Aeschyleae, quae inscribitur Prometheus vinctus -- Martini, Edgar / Analecta Laertiana -- Mekler, Siegfried / Euripidea : textkritische Studien -- Miller, Thomas / Euripides rhetoricus -- Marx, Friedrich / Studia Luciliana -- Dahler, Johann Georg / Exercitationes in Appiani Alexandrini romanas historias -- Mezger, Friedrich / Inscriptio Milesiaca de pace cum Magnetibus facta -- Michael, Hugo / Die Heimat des Odysseus : ein Beitrag zur Kritik der Dörpfeld'schen Leukas-Ithaka-Hypothese -- Lange, Wilhelm Marius / Quaestiones in Aristophanis Thesmophoriazusas -- Merz, Konrad / Forschungen über die Anfänge der Ethnographie bei den Griechen -- Kern, Johann Michael / Accentuum veterum Graecorum genuina pronuntiatio -- Kurz, Emil / Ueber den Octavius des Minucius Felix : mit dem Text von Cap. 20-26 incl. -- Klein, Otto / Beiträge zur Kenntnis der syrischen Übersetzungen des Neuen Testaments, nebst Probe eines syrisch-griechischen Evangelien-Vokabulars -- Klein, Josef / Die kleineren inschriftlichen Denkmäler des Bonner Provinzial-Museums : 3 -- Klein, Josef / Die kleineren inschriftlichen Denkmäler des Bonner Provinzial-Museums : 4 -- Klein, Josef / Römische Inschriften aus Bonn -- Klein, Josef / Kleinere Mittheilungen aus dem Provinzial-Museum zu Bonn : 4 -- Kosegarten, Ludwig Gotthard / Plato de Legibus Lib. VII -- Lagus, Jacob Johan Wilhelm / Plutarchus Varronis studiosus -- Klossman, Johann Friedrich / Prolegomena in dialogum de oratoribus claris qui Tacito vulgo adscribitur. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--University of Pennsylvania. / Includes bibliographical references (p. ix-xi) and index. Also issued in print.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1968. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-279).