Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world - International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World 2010 Canberra, Australia); Minchin, Elizabeth (Leiden Brill, 2012)
Pt. 1. Poetry in performance -- The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus / Adrian Kelly -- The presentation of song in Homer's odyssey / Deborah Beck -- Comparative perspectives on the composition of the Homeric simile / Jonathon Ready -- Composing lines, performing acts: clauses, discourse acts, and melodic units in a south slavic epic song / Anna Bonifazi and David F. Elmer -- Works and days as performance / Ruth Scodel -- Pt. 2. Literacy and orality -- Empowering the sacred: the function of the Sanskrit text in a contemporary exposition of the Bhagavatapurana/ McComas Taylor -- Prompts for participation in early philosophical texts/ James Henderson Collins II -- Performing an academic talk: Proclus on Hesiod's works and days / Patrizia Marzillo -- The criticism-and the practice-of literacy in the ancient philosophical tradition / Mathilde Cambron-Goulet -- Reading books, talking culture: the performance of Paideia in imperial greek literature / Jeroen Lauwers -- Eumolpus poeta at work: rehearsed spontaneity in the Satyricon / Niall Slater.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Oral communication -- Greece -- Congresses; Written communication -- Greece -- Congresses; Transmission of texts -- Greece -- Congresses