{"id":58,"date":"2026-04-20T09:32:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avdomedjedovic.me\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:14:58","slug":"avdo-medjedovic-homer-oralna-teorija","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avdomedjedovic.me\/en\/avdo-medjedovic-homer-oralna-teorija\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Guslar from Obrov to Proof That Homer Could Have Existed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignfull is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Research by Milman Parry and Albert Lord<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1935 \u2013 Parry records Avdo in Bijelo Polje (9 songs on a phonograph, 4 dictated)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over 80,000 verses in just five days<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1950\u20131951 \u2013 Lord returns and records an additional ~18,000 verses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In total, nearly 100,000 verses \u2014 forming the core of the Parry Collection at Harvard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Experiments That Changed Science<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Avdo demonstrated that an illiterate singer can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>hear a poem once and immediately reproduce it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>expand it several times<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>maintain epic structure across thousands of verses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-plain is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow is-style-plain--1\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--2\"><em>\u201cAvdo demonstrated that oral poets can \u2018originally create\u2019 vast epics many times longer than their source versions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u2014 Albert B. Lord, The Singer of Tales<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Comparison with Homer<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Avdo\u2019s works became a key piece of evidence for the oral-formulaic theory and helped explain how Homeric epics may have been composed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Conclusion<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Avdo Me\u0111edovi\u0107 is today regarded as one of the most important figures in the study of oral literature. His genius did not lie in written text, but in the living word and inexhaustible creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istra\u017eivanja Milmana Parryja i Alberta Lorda Eksperimenti koji su promijenili nauku Avdo je dokazao da nepismeni pjeva\u010d mo\u017ee: \u201eAvdo je pokazao da oralni pjesnici mogu \u2018izvorno kreirati\u2019 ogromne epove vi\u0161estruko du\u017ee od svojih nacrta.\u201c \u2014 Albert B. Lord, The Singer of Tales Pore\u0111enje sa Homerom Avdova djela postala su klju\u010dni dokaz oralno-formulne teorije i pomogla [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Avdo Me\u0111edovi\u0107: dokaz o usmenoj epici<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Avdo Me\u0111edovi\u0107 pokazuje kako je usmena epika mogla nastajati bez pisanja. 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