Homero e as palavras aladas

Today it is practically impossible to have a debate on the power of spoken vs. written word and the blurred borders between oral expression, writing and memory, without referring to the enforced authority of Homer. The Homeric Poems, being the most ancient milestone of the literary genre in Europe, are also and paradoxically a unique product of oral tradition. Such evidence has been discussed in the field of philological research for the last centuries and is attested not only formally, via the complex compositional technique of the epic formulas, but it also emerges in the thematic and symbolic options inherent to poetic creation