Il discorso di Eraclito
Since the “scuola urbinate” (e. g. B. Gentili) applied the oral theory
to the Greek lyricists, orality is seen to have influenced thought and language
not only of rhapsodists, but of archaic authors in general. Against this
background, I investigate how the interaction between orality and literacy,
which I suggest to call “aurality”, influences the semantics and the linguistic
reasoning chiefly of Heraclitus among the early presocratic thinkers. On the
one hand Heraclitus is an oral “image-thinker” (Havelock) and his prose is
poetically constructed; on the other hand only by writing he can figure out the
discourse (λόγος) as a ὀνόματα - composed unity, as I mean he does, rather than
holistic or as a continuum, what is common in oral societies. Such a λόγος is
able to serve as a cosmological model, for the physical world consisting of a
multiplicity of phenomena closely jointed to each other into an invisible
unity.
Il discorso di Eraclito
by Laura Gianvittorio
Spoudasmata, αρ. 134, 2010, pages 308.
Georg Olms Verlag, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) - D 4144.
ISBN: 9783487143866
DOI: 10.26530 / OAPEN_507997
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