Between Orality and Literacy : Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, Vol. 10.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction (Scodel) -- Controlling the Web: Hypertextuality, the Iliad, and the Crimes of Previous Generations (O'Maley) -- Omens and Messages in the Iliad and Odyssey: A Study in Transmission (Ready) -- Prophetic Hesiod (Scodel) -- Λάβε τὸ βυβλίον: Orality and Literacy in Aristophanes (Anderson and Dix) -- Boreas and Oreithyia: A Case-Study in Multichannel Transmission of Myth (Finkelberg) -- The Poet and the Painter: A Hymn to Zeus on a Cup by the Brygos Painter (Gaunt) -- Story Time at the Library: Palaephatus and the Emergence of Highly Literate Mythology (Hawes) -- Orality in Philosophical Epistles (Cambron-Goulet) -- Look and Listen: History Performed and Inscribed (Zelnick-Abramovitz) -- Spoken Prayers and Written Instructions in the Central Italian Cultural Koinê and Beyond (Fisher) -- Oral Textuality as a Language of Exclusive Communication in Terence's Prologues (Papaioannou) -- Simile Structure in Homeric Epic and Vergil's Aeneid (Beck) -- Poet, Audience, Time, and Text: Reflections on Medium and Mode in Homer and Virgil (Minchin) -- Speaking Verse to Power: Circulation of Oral and Written Critique in the Lives of the Caesars (Slater) -- The Book of Revelation: A Written Text Towards the Oral Performance (García Ureña) -- The End of Orality: Transmission of Gospel Tradition in the Second and Third Centuries (Charlesworth) -- Transmitting Legal Knowledge: From Question-and-Answer Format to Handbook in Gaius' Institutes (Wibier) -- Index of Ancient Texts -- General Index.

The essays in Between Orality and Literacy address how oral and literature practices intersect. Their topics range from Homer and Hesiod to the New Testament and Gaius' Institutes, from epic poetry and drama to vase painting, historiography, mythography, and the philosophical letter.

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