Title Between orality and literacy : communication and adaptation in antiquity / edited by Ruth Scodel

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 387 pages .) Series Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 0169-8958 ; volume 367 Orality and literacy in the ancient world ; vol. 10 Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 367. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature. Orality and literacy in the ancient world ; v. 10. Summary The essays in Between Orality and Literacy address how oral and literature practices intersect as messages, texts, practices, and traditions move and change, because issues of orality and literacy are especially complex and significant when information is transmitted over wide expanses of time and space or adapted in new contexts. Their topics range from Homer and Hesiod to the New Testament and Gaius' Institutes, from epic poetry and drama to vase painting, historiography, mythography, and the philosophical letter. Repeatedly they return to certain issues. Writing and orality are not mutually exclusive, and their interaction is not always in a single direction. Authors, whether they use writing or not, try to control the responses of a listening audience. A variable tradition can be fixed, not just by writing as a technology, but by such different processes as the establishment of a Panhellenic version of an Attic myth and a Hellenistic city's creation of a single celebratory history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Oral communication -- Greece -- Congresses Oral communication -- Rome -- Congresses Written communication -- Greece -- Congresses Written communication -- Rome -- Congresses Transmission of texts -- Greece -- Congresses Transmission of texts -- Rome -- Congresses Oral tradition in literature -- Congresses Oral-formulaic analysis -- Congresses PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology. Oral communication Oral-formulaic analysis Oral tradition in literature Transmission of texts Written communication Literatur Griechisch Latein Mündlichkeit Mündliche Überlieferung Greece Rome (Empire) Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Scodel, Ruth, editor ISBN 9004270973 9789004270978

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