Hercules furens
"The essays in this volume present new insights into the far-reaching influence of an early oral culture on subsequent development after the spread of literacy. At the outset, revisionist essays on the Homeric epics examine such questions as historical memory, Homer's audience(s), descriptive strategies, ring-composition, and the status of orality as a constitutive feature of the epics." "These are followed by virtually unprecedented studies of the orality of later (written) literature, includi…
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- Full title :Hercules furens / Seneca ; Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar von Margarethe Billerbeck.
Summary
"The essays in this volume present new insights into the far-reaching influence of an early oral culture on subsequent development after the spread of literacy. At the outset, revisionist essays on the Homeric epics examine such questions as historical memory, Homer's audience(s), descriptive strategies, ring-composition, and the status of orality as a constitutive feature of the epics." "These are followed by virtually unprecedented studies of the orality of later (written) literature, including Greek oratory, Virgilian epic, Pliny's Panegyricus and story-telling in late Greek writers."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Publication Date:1999.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Brill
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:lat
- Publication Date:1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxix, 727 pages ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9004112731, 9789004112735, 9004112456, 9789004112452
- oclc:ocm40588252
- LC Classification:PA6664
- Dewey Decimal:872/.01
Table of Contents
Introduction: What's in a Sign? / John Miles Foley -- I. How Oral is Oral Composition? / Egbert J. Bakker -- II. Describing and Narrating in Homer's Iliad / Elizabeth Minchin -- III. Ring-composition and Linearity in Homer / Stephen A. Nimis -- IV. Odysseus' Evasiveness and the Audience of the Odyssey / Ruth Scodel -- V. Homer and Historical Memory / Wolfgang Kullmann -- VI. The Bystander at the Ringside. Ring-composition in Early Greek Poetry and Vase-Painting / Anne Mackay, Deirdre Harrison and Samantha Masters -- VII. The Vase as Ventriloquist. Kalos-inscriptions and the Culture of Fame / Niall W. Slater -- VIII. The Orality of Greek Oratory / Michael Gagarin -- IX. Dialogue and Orality in a Post-Platonic Age / Harold Tarrant -- X. Virgil's Formularity and Pius Aeneas / Merritt Sale -- XI. Two Levels of Orality in the Genesis of Pliny's Panegyricus / Elaine Fantham.
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