TY - BOOK AU - Cooper,Craig R. TI - Politics of orality T2 - Brill eBook titles 2007 SN - 9789047408086 AV - PA3521 .P65 2007 U1 - 880.9/001 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Boston PB - Brill KW - Bellettrie KW - gtt KW - Griekse oudheid KW - Mondelinge literatuur KW - Politieke aspecten KW - Greek literature KW - History and criticism KW - Language and culture KW - Greece KW - Oral communication KW - Oral tradition KW - Transmission of texts N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary material; C. Cooper --; The language of heroes and the language of heroines: Storytelling in oral traditional epic; Elizabeth Minchin --; “Summoning together all the people”: Variant tellings of the Mwindo epic as social and political deliberation; Nathalia King --; Orality and textual criticism: The homeric hymns; Franco Ferrari --; Orality and the politics of scholarship; Annette Teffeteller --; Written lists of military personnel in classical Athens; Geoffrey W. Bakewell --; Why the athenians forgot Cleisthenes: Literacy and the politics of remembrance in ancient Athens; Greg Anderson --; Lycurgus and the state text of tragedy; Ruth Scodel --; Myth and writing in Aeschines’ against Timarchus; Guy Olding --; Orality and the politics of roman peacemaking; L.T. Zollschan --; Theognis’ Sphrêgis: Aristocratic speech and the paradoxes of writing; Thomas Hubbard --; Thucydides’ history live: Reception and politics; James V. Morrison --; From orality to literacy: The moral education of the elite in fourth-century Athens; Frances Pownall --; Writing divine speech: Greek transliterations of near eastern languages in the hellenistic east; Matthew J. Martin --; Fighting the future: Euripidean letters and Thucydides’ Athens; E.M. Griffiths --; Elitist orality and the triviality of writing; Margalit Finkelberg --; Neronian oral politics: The case of Musonius Rufus; Niall W. Slater --; Oral “agreement”, written contract, and the bonds of law at Athens; Edwin Carawan --; Did the athenian courts attempt to achieve consistency? Oral tradition and written records in the athenian administration of justice; Edward M. Harris --; Select index; C. Cooper --; Supplements to Mnemosyne; C. Cooper; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004145405.i-380 ER -