Between orality and literacy : communication and adaptation in antiquity /

Between orality and literacy : communication and adaptation in antiquity /

The essays in Between Orality and Literacy address how oral and literature practices intersect as messages, texts, practices, and traditions move and change, because issues of orality and literacy are especially complex and significant when information is transmitted over wide expanses of time and s...

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Corporate Author: International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Other Authors: Scodel, Ruth, editor of compilation.

Format: Conference Proceeding eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 367.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Oral communication > Greece > Congresses.
Oral communication > Rome > Congresses.
Written communication > Greece > Congresses.
Written communication > Rome > Congresses.
Transmission of texts > Greece > Congresses.
Transmission of texts > Rome > Congresses.
Oral tradition in literature > Congresses.
Oral-formulaic analysis > Congresses.

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Call Number: P92.G75 I5353 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter /
  • Ruth Scodel
  • Introduction /
  • Ruth Scodel
  • Controlling the Web: Hypertextuality, the Iliad, and the Crimes of Previous Generations /
  • James O'Maley
  • Omens and Messages in the Iliad and Odyssey: A Study in Transmission /
  • Jonathan L. Ready
  • Prophetic Hesiod /
  • Ruth Scodel
  • Λάβε τὸ βυβλίον: Orality and Literacy in Aristophanes /
  • Carl A. Anderson and Keith T. Dix
  • Boreas and Oreithyia: A Case-Study in Multichannel Transmission of Myth /
  • Margalit Finkelberg
  • The Poet and the Painter: A Hymn to Zeus on a Cup by the Brygos Painter /
  • Jasper Gaunt
  • Story Time at the Library: Palaephatus and the Emergence of Highly Literate Mythology /
  • Greta Hawes
  • Orality in Philosophical Epistles /
  • Mathilde Cambron-Goulet
  • Look and Listen: History Performed and Inscribed /
  • Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
  • Spoken Prayers and Written Instructions in the Central Italian Cultural Koinê and Beyond /
  • Jay Fisher
  • Oral Textuality as a Language of Exclusive Communication in Terence's Prologues /
  • Sophia Papaioannou
  • Simile Structure in Homeric Epic and Vergil's Aeneid /
  • Deborah Beck
  • Poet, Audience, Time, and Text: Reflections on Medium and Mode in Homer and Virgil /
  • Elizabeth Minchin
  • Speaking Verse to Power: Circulation of Oral and Written Critique in the Lives of the Caesars /
  • Niall W. Slater
  • The Book of Revelation: A Written Text Towards the Oral Performance /
  • Lourdes García Ureña
  • The End of Orality: Transmission of Gospel Tradition in the Second and Third Centuries /
  • S.D. Charlesworth
  • Transmitting Legal Knowledge: From Question-and-Answer Format to Handbook in Gaius' Institutes /
  • Matthijs Wibier
  • Index of Ancient Texts /
  • Ruth Scodel.