Oral performance and its context / edited by C. J. Mackie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mackie, C. J. (Christopher J.), 1954-

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum 0169-8958 ; 248.

Orality and literacy in ancient Greece ; v. 5.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 248

Orality and literacy in ancient Greece ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral communication--Greece--Congresses.

Oral communication.

Written communication--Greece--Congresses.

Written communication.

Greece.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Summary:

This volume is concerned with the way that the spoken word and the written word co-exist and interact in antiquity. Papers deal with different genres from antiquity, from the period of early Greek antiquity through to the Roman world.

Contents:

The Modesty of Homer / Ruth Scodel 1

Rhythm and Regularity in Homeric Composition: Questions in the Odyssey / Elizabeth Minchin 21

Reperformance Scenarios for Pindar's Odes / Bruno Currie 49

The Dissemination of Epinician Lyric: Pan-Hellenism, Reperformance, Written Texts / Thomas K. Hubbard 71

Memory, Time, and Writing: Oral and Literary Aspects of Thucydides' History / James V. Morrison 95

Orality and Aristotle's Aesthetics and Methods; Take #2 / Daniel F. Melia 117

Oral Performance in the Athenian Assembly and the Demosthenic Prooemia / Ian Worthington 129

Demosthenes Actor on the Political and Forensic Stage / Craig Cooper 145

Staging Literacy in Plautus / Niall W. Slater 163

Oral and Written Forms of Closure in the Ancient Novel / Stephen A. Nimis 179

Orality, Greek Literacy, and Early Ptolemaic Papyri / Trevor V. Evans 195.

Notes:

Papers presented at the University of Melbourne conference in July 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004136800

OCLC:

53183343