TY - BOOK AU - Minchin,Elizabeth ED - International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world: orality and literacy in the ancient world, vol. 9 T2 - Mnemosyne supplements : monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, AV - P92.G75 I535 2012eb PY - 2012/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Oral communication KW - Greece KW - Congresses KW - Written communication KW - Transmission of texts KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2012; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10518819 ER -