Politics of orality [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Craig Cooper

• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Disciplina: 880.9/001
• Soggetto topico: Greek literature - History and criticism; Transmission of texts - Greece; Oral communication - Greece; Language and culture - Greece; Oral tradition - Greece
• Altri autori: CooperCraig R <1960-> (Craig Richard)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Epic, orality and politics -- pt. II. Political manipulation of texts -- pt. III. The oral and written controversy : privileging literacy -- pt. IV. The oral and written controversy : privileging orality -- pt. V. Orality and written law.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume represents the sixth in the series on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds. The present work comprises a collection of essays that explore the tensions and controversies that arise as a society moves from an oral to literate culture. Part 1 deals with both Homeric and other forms of epic; part 2 explores different ways in which texts and writing were manipulated for political ends. Part 3 and 4 deals with the controversies surrounding the adoption of writing as the accepted mode of communication; whereas some segments of society began to privilege writing over oral communication, others continued to maintain that the latter was superior. Part 4 looks at the oral elements of Athenian Law.
• Titolo autorizzato: Politics of orality
• ISBN: 1-281-39671-0; 9786611396718; 90-474-0808-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996237242203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Orality and literacy in ancient Greece ; ; v. 6.; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. . -Supplementum ; ; 280.