Voice into text : : orality and literacy in ancient Greece / / edited by Ian Worthington.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 157
• TeilnehmendeR: Worthington, Ian.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1996.
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 157.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; The Performance of Lists and Catalogues in the Homeric Epics /; Homer and Avdo: Investigating Orality through External Consistency /; Time and Timelessness in the Traditions of Early Greek Oral Poetry and Archaic Vase-Painting /; Self-Correction, Spontaneity, and Orality in Archaic Poetry /; Literary Awareness in Euripides and his Audience /; Literacy and Old Comedy /; Written and Spoken in the First Sophistic /; Orality and Plato’s Narrative Dialogues /; Oral Xenophon /; Greek Oratory and the Orauliterate Division /; Wingy Mysteries in Divinity /; Aptera EPE-The Canon of Modern Greek Oral Poetry /; Orality and Literacy in the Poetic Traditions of Archaic Greece and Southern Africa /; Bibliography /; Index /; Supplements To Mnemosyne /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index.
• ISBN: 9004329838
• ISSN: 0169-8958
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by 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.