Voice and voices in antiquity / edited by Niall W. Slater.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Slater, Niall W., 1954- editor.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World (11th : 2014 : Emory University)

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 0169-8958 395.

Orality and literacy in the ancient world ; Volume 11.

Mnemosyne, Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman Language and Literature, 0169-8958 ; Volume 395

Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Oral communication in literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

Voice and Voices in Antiquity draws together 18 studies of the changing concept of voice and voices in the oral traditions and subsequent literate genres of the ancient world. Ranging from the poet's voice to those of characters as well as historically embodied communities, and from the interface between the Greek and Near Eastern worlds to the western reaches of the Roman Empire, the scholars assembled here offer a methodologically rich and diverse series of approaches to locating the power of voice as both poetic construct and communal memory. The results not only enrich our understanding of the strategies of epic, lyric, and dramatic voices but also illuminate the rhetorical claims given voice by historians, orators, philosophers, and novelists in the ancient world.

Contents:

Front Matter / Niall W. Slater

Introduction / Niall W. Slater

Voice and Voices: Homer and the Stewardship of Memory / Elizabeth Minchin

Which Limits for Speech Reporting? Messenger Scenes and Control of Repetition in the Iliad / Ombretta Cesca

The Voice of the Seer in the Iliad and the Odyssey / Deborah Beck

The Individual Voice in Works and Days / Ruth Scodel

Nestor’s Cup and Its Reception / Jasper Gaunt

Pindar’s Voice(s): The Epinician Persona Reconsidered / Claas Lattmann

Poeta Loquens: Poetic Voices in Pindar’s Paean 6 and Horace’s Odes 4.6 / Margaret Foster

Melizein Pathe or the Tonal Dimension in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: Voice, Song, and Choreia as Leitmotifs and Metatragic Signals for Expressing Suffering / Anton Bierl

Daphnis’ Folksong: The Euphonist’s Effect on the Creation of a Textual Performance / Naomi Kaloudis

Towards a Grammar of Narrative Voice: From Homeric Pragmatics to Hellenistic Stylistics / Andreas Willi

The Voice of Aeschylus in Plato’s Republic / Geoffrey W. Bakewell

Character in Narrative Depictions of Composing Oral Epics and Reading Historiographies / Raymond F. Person

Written Record and Membership in Persian Period Judah and Classical Athens / Aubrey E. Buster

Voiced Mathematics: Orality and Numeracy / Tazuko Angela van Berkel

Cicero’s Representation of an Oral Community in De Oratore / Joanna Kenty

Becoming Gallic: Orality, Voice and Identity in Roman Gaul / Jay Fisher

λόγος and φωνή in Odyssey 10 and Plutarch’s Gryllus / Athena Kirk

The Fragrance of the Rose: An Image of the Voice in Achilles Tatius / Amy Koenig

Index / Niall W. Slater.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-32973-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004329737 DOI