| Description |
1 online resource (x, 232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 157 |
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 157. 0169-8958
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| Contents |
Performance of lists and catalogues in the Homeric Epics / Elizabeth Minchin -- Homer and Avdo : investigating orality through external consistency / W. Merritt Sale -- Time and timelessness in the traditions of early Greek oral poetry and archaic vase-painting / Anne Mackay -- Self-correction, spontaneity, and orality in archaic poetry / Ruth Scodel -- Literary awareness in Euripides and his audience / C.W. Marshall -- Literacy and old comedy / Niall W. Slater -- Written and spoken in the first sophistic / Neil O'Sullivan -- Orality and Plato's narrative dialogues / Harold Tarrant -- Oral Xenophon / Douglas Kelly -- Greek oratory and the oral/literate division / Ian Worthington -- Wingy mysteries in divinity / Carol G. Thomas -- Aptera Epe- The canon of modern Greek oral poetry / Stathis Gauntlett -- Orality and literacy in the poetic traditions of archaic Greece and Southern Africa / Richard Whitaker |
| Summary |
This volume deals with orality and literacy in ancient Greece and what consideration of these areas yields for that society, its literature, traditions and practices. Individual chapters focus on art, comedy, historiography, oratory, religion, rhetoric, philosophy, poetry, tragedy, and on orality in contemporary cultures (Greek and South African), which have a bearing on the ancient world. By considering such factors as oral elements in various genres and practices and how these have shaped the texts we have today, as well as the extent of literacy and the impact of literacy on oral traditions and on singers/writers, the book presents another insight into ancient Greek society and its people |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Greek literature -- Criticism, Textual.
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Transmission of texts -- Greece
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Written communication -- Greece
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Language and culture -- Greece
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Oral communication -- Greece
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Oral tradition -- Greece
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Literacy -- Greece
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Writing -- Greece
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Civilization.
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Greek literature.
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Language and culture.
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Literacy.
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Oral communication.
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Oral tradition.
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Transmission of texts.
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Writing.
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Written communication.
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Mondelinge literatuur.
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Letterkunde.
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Alfabetisme.
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Griekse oudheid.
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057040
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Greece.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Worthington, Ian
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| ISBN |
9789004329836 |
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9004329838 |
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