Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient WorldElizabeth Minchin The ninth meeting in the international Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World series - in the fiftieth year since the publication in 1960 of Albert Lord's The Singer of Tales - took as its theme 'Composition and Performance'. This volume contains a selection of those papers, several of which illustrate methodologically innovative approaches to the act of composition, the nature of performance, and vocalization in text. Under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, the orators of the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cultural studies include, amongst others, South Slavic epic and a text from the Sanskrit archive. |
Contents
The Audience Expects Penelope and Odysseus | 3 |
The Presentation of Song in Homers Odyssey | 25 |
Comparative Perspectives on the Composition of the Homeric Simile | 55 |
Composing Lines Performing Acts Clauses Discourse Acts and Melodic Units in a South Slavic Epic Song | 89 |
Works and Days As Performance | 111 |
PART II LITERACY AND ORALITY | 127 |
Empowering the Sacred The Function of the Sanskrit Text in a Contemporary Exposition of the Bhagavatapurana | 129 |
Prompts for Participation in Early Philosophical Texts | 151 |
Performing an Academic Talk Proclus on Hesiods Works and Days | 183 |
The Criticismand the Practiceof Literacy in the Ancient Philosophical Tradition | 201 |
Reading Books Talking Culture The Performance of Paideia in Imperial Greek Literature | 227 |
Eumolpus Poeta at Work Rehearsed Spontaneity in the Satyricon | 245 |
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