Voice into text : orality and literacy in ancient Greece / edited by Ian Worthington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Worthington, Ian.

Series:

Mnemosyne, Supplements 157.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 157

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--Criticism, Textual.

Greek literature.

Literacy--Greece.

Literacy.

Writing--Greece.

Writing.

Civilization.

Language and culture.

Oral communication.

Oral tradition.

Transmission of texts.

Written communication.

Greece--Civilization.

Greece.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996.

Summary:

This volume deals with orality and literacy in ancient Greece and what consideration of these areas yields for that society, its literature, traditions and practices. Individual chapters focus on art, comedy, historiography, oratory, religion, rhetoric, philosophy, poetry, tragedy, and on orality in contemporary cultures (Greek and South African), which have a bearing on the ancient world. By considering such factors as oral elements in various genres and practices and how these have shaped the texts we have today, as well as the extent of literacy and the impact of literacy on oral traditions and on singers/writers, the book presents another insight into ancient Greek society and its people.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Ian Worthington

The Performance of Lists and Catalogues in the Homeric Epics / Elizabeth Minchin

Homer and Avdo: Investigating Orality through External Consistency / W. Merritt Sale

Time and Timelessness in the Traditions of Early Greek Oral Poetry and Archaic Vase-Painting / Anne Mackay

Self-Correction, Spontaneity, and Orality in Archaic Poetry / Ruth Scodel

Literary Awareness in Euripides and his Audience / C.W. Marshall

Literacy and Old Comedy / Niall W. Slater

Written and Spoken in the First Sophistic / Neil O'Sullivan

Orality and Plato’s Narrative Dialogues / Harold Tarrant

Oral Xenophon / Douglas Kelly

Greek Oratory and the Orauliterate Division / Ian Worthington

Wingy Mysteries in Divinity / Carol G. Thomas

Aptera EPE-The Canon of Modern Greek Oral Poetry / Stathis Gauntlett

Orality and Literacy in the Poetic Traditions of Archaic Greece and Southern Africa / Richard Whitaker

Bibliography / Ian Worthington

Index / Ian Worthington

Supplements To Mnemosyne / J.M. Bremer , L. F. Janssen , H. Pinkster , H. W. Pleket , C.J. Ruijgh and P.H. Schrijvers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index.

ISBN:

90-04-32983-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004329836 DOI