Politics of orality /
Politics of orality /
edited by Craig Cooper.
- 1 online resource.
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 280 0169-8958 ; Orality and literacy in ancient Greece ; v. 6 .
- Brill eBook titles 2007 .
- Mnemosyne, Supplements 280. Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary material / The language of heroes and the language of heroines: Storytelling in oral traditional epic / “Summoning together all the people”: Variant tellings of the Mwindo epic as social and political deliberation / Orality and textual criticism: The homeric hymns / Orality and the politics of scholarship / Written lists of military personnel in classical Athens / Why the athenians forgot Cleisthenes: Literacy and the politics of remembrance in ancient Athens / Lycurgus and the state text of tragedy / Myth and writing in Aeschines’ against Timarchus / Orality and the politics of roman peacemaking / Theognis’ Sphrêgis: Aristocratic speech and the paradoxes of writing / Thucydides’ history live: Reception and politics / From orality to literacy: The moral education of the elite in fourth-century Athens / Writing divine speech: Greek transliterations of near eastern languages in the hellenistic east / Fighting the future: Euripidean letters and Thucydides’ Athens / Elitist orality and the triviality of writing / Neronian oral politics: The case of Musonius Rufus / Oral “agreement”, written contract, and the bonds of law at Athens / Did the athenian courts attempt to achieve consistency? Oral tradition and written records in the athenian administration of justice / Select index / Supplements to Mnemosyne / C. Cooper -- Elizabeth Minchin -- Nathalia King -- Franco Ferrari -- Annette Teffeteller -- Geoffrey W. Bakewell -- Greg Anderson -- Ruth Scodel -- Guy Olding -- L.T. Zollschan -- Thomas Hubbard -- James V. Morrison -- Frances Pownall -- Matthew J. Martin -- E.M. Griffiths -- Margalit Finkelberg -- Niall W. Slater -- Edwin Carawan -- Edward M. Harris -- C. Cooper -- C. Cooper.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789047408086
10.1163/ej.9789004145405.i-380 DOI
2006051690
B0616976 bccb
Bellettrie.
Griekse oudheid.
Mondelinge literatuur.
Politieke aspecten.
Greek literature--History and criticism.
Language and culture--Greece.
Oral communication--Greece.
Oral tradition--Greece.
Transmission of texts--Greece.
PA3521 / .P65 2007
880.9/001
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary material / The language of heroes and the language of heroines: Storytelling in oral traditional epic / “Summoning together all the people”: Variant tellings of the Mwindo epic as social and political deliberation / Orality and textual criticism: The homeric hymns / Orality and the politics of scholarship / Written lists of military personnel in classical Athens / Why the athenians forgot Cleisthenes: Literacy and the politics of remembrance in ancient Athens / Lycurgus and the state text of tragedy / Myth and writing in Aeschines’ against Timarchus / Orality and the politics of roman peacemaking / Theognis’ Sphrêgis: Aristocratic speech and the paradoxes of writing / Thucydides’ history live: Reception and politics / From orality to literacy: The moral education of the elite in fourth-century Athens / Writing divine speech: Greek transliterations of near eastern languages in the hellenistic east / Fighting the future: Euripidean letters and Thucydides’ Athens / Elitist orality and the triviality of writing / Neronian oral politics: The case of Musonius Rufus / Oral “agreement”, written contract, and the bonds of law at Athens / Did the athenian courts attempt to achieve consistency? Oral tradition and written records in the athenian administration of justice / Select index / Supplements to Mnemosyne / C. Cooper -- Elizabeth Minchin -- Nathalia King -- Franco Ferrari -- Annette Teffeteller -- Geoffrey W. Bakewell -- Greg Anderson -- Ruth Scodel -- Guy Olding -- L.T. Zollschan -- Thomas Hubbard -- James V. Morrison -- Frances Pownall -- Matthew J. Martin -- E.M. Griffiths -- Margalit Finkelberg -- Niall W. Slater -- Edwin Carawan -- Edward M. Harris -- C. Cooper -- C. Cooper.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789047408086
10.1163/ej.9789004145405.i-380 DOI
2006051690
B0616976 bccb
Bellettrie.
Griekse oudheid.
Mondelinge literatuur.
Politieke aspecten.
Greek literature--History and criticism.
Language and culture--Greece.
Oral communication--Greece.
Oral tradition--Greece.
Transmission of texts--Greece.
PA3521 / .P65 2007
880.9/001