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Epea and grammata : oral and written communication in Ancient Greece : (Orality and literacy in ancient Greece, vol. 4) / edited by Ian Worthington and John Miles Foley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum 0169-8958 ; 230.
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum 0169-8958 ; 230
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek literature--History and criticism.
- Greek literature.
- Written communication--Greece--History.
- Oral communication--Greece--History.
- Oral tradition--Greece--History.
- Greek language--Written Greek.
- Greek language--Spoken Greek.
- Language and culture--Greece.
- Language and culture.
- Literacy.
- History.
- Greek language.
- Oral tradition.
- Oral communication.
- Written communication.
- Greece.
- Literacy--Greece--History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 206 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Epea & grammata
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Literature, Art, and Drama
- Chapter 1 Editing and Translating Traditional Oral Epic: The South Slavic Songs and Homer / John Miles Foley 3
- Chapter 2 Ritual Speech in Early Greek Song / John F. Garcia 29
- Chapter 3 The Evocation of Emotional Response in Early Greek Poetry and Painting / E.A. Mackay 55
- Chapter 4 Speech Acts in the Everyday World and in Homer: The Rebuke as a Case Study / Elizabeth Minchin 71
- Chapter 5 Homeric Signs and Flashbulb Memory / Ruth Scodel 99
- Chapter 6 Dancing the Alphabet: Performative Literacy on the Attic Stage / Niall W. Slater 117
- Part 2 Rhetoric and Society
- Chapter 7 Entertainment and Democratic Distrust: The Audience's Attitude towards Oral and Written Oratory in Classical Athens / Johan Schloemann 133
- Chapter 8 Literacy, Orality, and Legislative Procedure in Classical Athens / James P. Sickinger 147
- Part 3 Philosophy
- Chapter 9 Philology or Philosophy? Simplicius on the Use of Quotations / Han Baltussen 173.
- Notes:
- "This volume ... is a selection of refereed papers from the fourth biennial 'Orality and literacy in ancient Greece' conference, held at the University of Missouri Columbia in 2000"--P. [4] of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004124551
- OCLC:
- 48559138
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