Ombre di Pisistrato. Influenze della propaganda tirannica in due luoghi dell'epos omerico

In the last decades of the 6th century B.C., the Greek epic tradition passed through Athens and there, for the patronage of tyrants, the Homeridai rhapsodes ensured a monumental series of performances of the epos attributed to Homer and the possibility of deriving a written text for the polis (the so-called pisistratic recensio). Traces of this historical passage in the text of the Homeric poems are the Attic dialectal forms present in the diction and some rhapsodic insertions inspired by tyrannical propaganda. Two passages of the Homeric epos, one from the Odyssey and the other from the Iliad, seem to have the characteristics of these rhapsodic insertions, although so far undetected by scholars. Their analysis is useful in understanding the dynamics that led to the creation of the Athenian written text of the Homeric poems.