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Record Nr.

UNISA996237748603316

Titolo

Oral performance and its context / / edited by C. J. Mackie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

90-474-1260-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 208 pages)

Collana

Orality and literacy in ancient Greece ; ; Volume 5

Disciplina

302.224093

Soggetti

Oral communication - Greece

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the University of Melbourne conference in July 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / C.J. MACKIE -- PREFACE / Christopher Mackie -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / C.J. MACKIE -- THE MODESTY OF HOMER / RUTH SCODEL -- RHYTHM AND REGULARITY IN HOMERIC COMPOSITION: QUESTIONS IN THE ODYSSEY / ELIZABETH MINCHIN -- REPERFORMANCE SCENARIOS FOR PINDAR'S ODES / BRUNO CURRIE -- THE DISSEMINATION OF EPINICIAN LYRIC: PAN-HELLENISM, REPERFORMANCE, WRITTEN TEXTS / THOMAS K. HUBBARD -- MEMORY, TIME, AND WRITING: ORAL AND LITERARY ASPECTS OF THUCYDIDES' HISTORY / JAMES V. MORRISON -- ORALITY AND ARISTOTLE'S AESTHETICS AND METHODS; TAKE #2 / DANIEL F. MELIA -- ORAL PERFORMANCE IN THE ATHENIAN ASSEMBLY AND THE DEMOSTHENIC PROOEMIA / IAN WORTHINGTON -- DEMOSTHENES ACTOR ON THE POLITICAL AND FORENSIC STAGE / CRAIG COOPER -- STAGING LITERACY IN PLAUTUS / NIALL W. SLATER -- ORAL AND WRITTEN FORMS OF CLOSURE IN THE ANCIENT NOVEL / STEPHEN A. NIMIS -- ORALITY, GREEK LITERACY, AND EARLY PTOLEMAIC PAPYRI / TREVOR V. EVANS -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE / H. PINKSTER , H.S. VERSNEL , D.M. SCHENKEVELD , P.H. SCHRIJVERS and S.R. SLINGS.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is concerned with aspects of orality and literacy in the ancient world. It arises from the tremendous contemporary interest among scholars in questions of how literacy and orality co-exist and interact in the ancient world. The contents of the book are refereed papers originally presented at the fifth biennial 'Orality and Literacy in



ancient Greece' held at The University of Melbourne in 2002. Papers are offered by scholars from Britain, the USA, Canada and Australia which deal with a range of periods and genres in antiquity, from Homer through to Roman literature. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the ancient world.