Orality, literacy, memory in the ancient Greek and Roman world / edited by E. Anne Mackay.

The volume represents the seventh in the series on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds. It comprises a collection of essays on the significance and working of memory in ancient texts and visual documentation, from contexts both oral (or oral-derived) and literate. The authors...

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Superior document:Orality and literacy in ancient Greece ; v. 7
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; v. 298.
Orality and literacy in ancient Greece ; v. 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials / E.A. Mackay
  • Introduction / Anne Mackay
  • Chapter One. Spatial Memory And The Composition Of The Iliad / Elizabeth Minchin
  • Chapter Two. Memory And Visualization In Homeric Discourse Markers / Anna Bonifazi
  • Chapter Three. Epic Remembering / Egbert J. Bakker
  • Chapter Four. “Someone, I Say, Will Remember Us”: Oral Memory In Sappho’s Poetry / André Lardinois
  • Chapter Five. Remember To Cry Wolf: Visual And Verbal Declarations Of Lykos Kalos / Alexandra Pappas
  • Chapter Six. Social Memory In Aeschylus’ Oresteia / Ruth Scodel
  • Chapter Seven. Trierarchs’ Records And The Athenian Naval Catalogue (Ig I3 1032) / Geoffrey Bakewell
  • Chapter Eight. What The Mnemones Know / Edwin Carawan
  • Chapter Nine. Getting The Last Word: Publication Of Political Oratory As An Instrument Of Historical Revisionism / Thomas Hubbard
  • Chapter Ten. Dialectic In Dialogue: The Message Of Plato’s Protagoras And Aristotle’s Topics / Han Baltussen
  • Chapter Eleven. Visual Copies And Memory / Jocelyn Penny Small
  • Chapter Twelve. Orality And Autobiography: The Case Of The Res Gestae / Niall W. Slater
  • List Of Conference Papers / E.A. Mackay
  • Index / E.A. Mackay.