Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world orality and literacy in the ancient world, vol. 9 / [electronic resource] :
edited by Elizabeth Minchin.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- xviii, 268 p.
- Mnemosyne supplements : monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, v. 335 0169-8958 ; .
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 335. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Poetry in performance -- The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus / Adrian Kelly -- The presentation of song in Homer's odyssey / Deborah Beck -- Comparative perspectives on the composition of the Homeric simile / Jonathon Ready -- Composing lines, performing acts: clauses, discourse acts, and melodic units in a south slavic epic song / Anna Bonifazi and David F. Elmer -- Works and days as performance / Ruth Scodel -- Pt. 2. Literacy and orality -- Empowering the sacred: the function of the Sanskrit text in a contemporary exposition of the Bhagavatapurana/ McComas Taylor -- Prompts for participation in early philosophical texts/ James Henderson Collins II -- Performing an academic talk: Proclus on Hesiod's works and days / Patrizia Marzillo -- The criticism-and the practice-of literacy in the ancient philosophical tradition / Mathilde Cambron-Goulet -- Reading books, talking culture: the performance of Paideia in imperial greek literature / Jeroen Lauwers -- Eumolpus poeta at work: rehearsed spontaneity in the Satyricon / Niall Slater.
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Oral communication--Greece--Congresses. Written communication--Greece--Congresses. Transmission of texts--Greece--Congresses.