Voice Into Text: Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece ; [... Chapters Were ... Delivered as Papers at a Conference Entitled 'Voice Into Text' ... Hobart, Australia from 3rd-8th July 1994.]Ian Worthington 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. |
Contents
Investigating Orality through External | 21 |
Time and Timelessness in the Traditions of Early Greek Oral | 43 |
SelfCorrection Spontaneity and Orality in Archaic Poetry | 59 |
Literary Awareness in Euripides and His Audience | 81 |
Literacy and Old Comedy | 99 |
Written and Spoken in the First Sophistic | 115 |
Orality and Platos Narrative Dialogues | 129 |
Oral Xenophon | 149 |
Greek Oratory and the OralLiterate Division | 165 |
Wingy Mysteries in Divinity | 179 |
Aptera EpeThe Canon of Modern Greek Oral Poetry | 195 |
Orality and Literacy in the Poetic Traditions of Archaic Greece | 205 |
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