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Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece
Worthington, I. Worthington, Ian
ISBN: 9789004104310
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Brill Academic Publishers
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A discussion of orality and literacy in ancient Greece and what analysis of these areas yields for that society and its culture. Chapters cover topics such as art, comedy, poetry, tragedy, and on orality in contemporary cultures (Greek and South African) which have a bearing on the ancient world.
This volume deals with orality and literacy in ancient Greece and what considerations of these areas yields for that society, its literature, traditions and practices. Individual chapters focus on art, comedy, historiography, oratory, religion, rhetoric, philosophy, poetry, tragedy, and on orality in contemporary cultures (Greek and South African) which have a bearing on the ancient world. By considering such factors as oral elements in various genres and practices and how these have shaped the texts we have today, as well as the extent of literacy and the impact of literacy on oral traditions and on singers/writers, the book aims to provide a relevant insight into ancient Greek society and its people.
| ISBN | 9004104313 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9789004104310
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 631 | | Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers | | Published in | Leiden | | Imprint | BRILL ACADEMIC PUB | | Series editor | Bremer, J.M., Janssen, L.F., Pleket, H.W. | | Format | Hardback | | Series ISSN | 157 | | Publication date | 01 Jan 1995 | | Series title | Mnemosyne Supplements | | Library of Congress | 95041628 | | Height (mm) | 246 | | DEWEY | 880.900 | | Width (mm) | 167 | | Pages | 232 | |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | List of Conference Papers | | | | | | List of Illustrations | | | | | | Notes on Contributors | | | | 1 | | The Performance of Lists and Catalogues in the Homeric Epics by Elizabeth Minchin | | 3 | | 2 | | Homer and Avdo: Investigating Orality through External Consistency by W. Merritt Sale | | 21 | | 3 | | Time and Timelessness in the Traditions of Early Greek Oral Poetry and Archaic Vase-Painting by Anne Mackay | | 43 | | 4 | | Self-Correction, Spontaneity, and Orality in Archaic Poetry by Ruth Scodel | | 59 | | 5 | | Literary Awareness in Euripides and His Audience by C.W. Marshall | | 81 | | 6 | | Literacy and Old Comedy by Niall W. Slater | | 99 | | 7 | | Written and Spoken in the First Sophistic by Neil O'Sullivan | | 115 | | 8 | | Orality and Plato's Narrative Dialogues by Harold Tarrant | | 129 | | 9 | | Oral Xenophon by Douglas Kelly | | 149 | | 10 | | Greek Oratory and the Oral/Literate Division by Ian Worthington | | 165 | | 11 | | Wingy Mysteries in Divinity by Carol G. Thomas | | 179 | | 12 | | Aptera Epe - The Canon of Modern Greek Oral Poetry by Stathis Gauntlett | | 195 | | 13 | | Orality and Literacy in the Poetic Traditions of Archaic Greece and Southern Africa by Richard Whitaker | | 205 | | | | Bibliography | | 221 | | | | Index | | 231 |
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