Politics of orality /

Politics of orality /

This volume represents the sixth in the series on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds. The present work comprises a collection of essays that explore the tensions and controversies that arise as a society moves from an oral to literate culture. Part 1 deals with both Homeric a...

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Other Authors: Cooper, Craig R. 1960-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2007.

Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 280
Orality and literacy in ancient Greece ; v. 6
Mnemosyne, Supplements 280.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Bellettrie.
Griekse oudheid.
Mondelinge literatuur.
Politieke aspecten.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Language and culture > Greece.
Oral communication > Greece.
Oral tradition > Greece.
Transmission of texts > Greece.

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Call Number: PA3521 .P65 2007

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material /
  • C. Cooper
  • The language of heroes and the language of heroines: Storytelling in oral traditional epic /
  • Elizabeth Minchin
  • "Summoning together all the people": Variant tellings of the Mwindo epic as social and political deliberation /
  • Nathalia King
  • Orality and textual criticism: The homeric hymns /
  • Franco Ferrari
  • Orality and the politics of scholarship /
  • Annette Teffeteller
  • Written lists of military personnel in classical Athens /
  • Geoffrey W. Bakewell
  • Why the athenians forgot Cleisthenes: Literacy and the politics of remembrance in ancient Athens /
  • Greg Anderson
  • Lycurgus and the state text of tragedy /
  • Ruth Scodel
  • Myth and writing in Aeschines' against Timarchus /
  • Guy Olding
  • Orality and the politics of roman peacemaking /
  • L.T. Zollschan
  • Theognis' Sphrêgis: Aristocratic speech and the paradoxes of writing /
  • Thomas Hubbard
  • Thucydides' history live: Reception and politics /
  • James V. Morrison
  • From orality to literacy: The moral education of the elite in fourth-century Athens /
  • Frances Pownall
  • Writing divine speech: Greek transliterations of near eastern languages in the hellenistic east /
  • Matthew J. Martin
  • Fighting the future: Euripidean letters and Thucydides' Athens /
  • E.M. Griffiths
  • Elitist orality and the triviality of writing /
  • Margalit Finkelberg
  • Neronian oral politics: The case of Musonius Rufus /
  • Niall W. Slater
  • Oral "agreement", written contract, and the bonds of law at Athens /
  • Edwin Carawan
  • Did the athenian courts attempt to achieve consistency? Oral tradition and written records in the athenian administration of justice /
  • Edward M. Harris
  • Select index /
  • C. Cooper
  • Supplements to Mnemosyne /
  • C. Cooper.