The nine essays in this volume focus on performance and audience reception of oral poetry, inviting us to rethink some key concepts for an understanding of traditional epic poetry. Egbert Bakker examines the epic performer's use of time and tense in recounting a past that is ali…
The nine essays in this volume focus on performance and audience reception of oral poetry, inviting us to rethink some key concepts for an understanding of traditional epic poetry. Egbert Bakker examines the epic performer's use of time and tense in recounting a past that is ali…
Between Orality and Literacy: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, vol. 10
by Scodel, Ruth, Scodel, Ruth, International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World
fromMnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava
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 le…