Orality, textuality, and the Homeric epics : an interdisciplinary study of oral texts, dictated texts, and wild texts / Jonathan L. Ready.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ready, Jonathan L., 1976- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral tradition.

Transmission of texts.

Homer--Criticism and interpretation.

Homer.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages)

Edition:

New product edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardisation after 150 BCE, but what of the earlier history of Homeric texts? This volume draws on scholarship from outside the discipline of classical studies to offer a comprehensive study of Homeric texts from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Oral Texts and Oral Intertextuality: 1 Oral Texts and Entextualization in the Homeric Epics

2 Oral Intertextuality and Mediational Routines in the Homeric Epics

Part II The Emergence of Written Texts: 3 Textualization

Part III Copying Written Texts: 4 The Scribe as Performer and the Ptolemaic Wild Papyri of the Homeric Epics

5 Scribal Performance in the Ptolemaic Wild Papyri of the Homeric Epics

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index of Greek Passages

Index of Terms

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2019.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 31, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-187282-2

0-19-257193-1

0-19-257194-X