Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, vol. 9

• Main Author: Minchin, Elizabeth
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston BRILL 2012
• Edition: 1
• Series: Mnemosyne Supplements
• Subjects: Congresses; Greece; Oral communication; Transmission of texts; Written communication

This ninth Orality and Literacy volume considers oral composition, performance, reception, and the mutual interplay between oral performance and written text. Authors under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, orators of the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cultural studies are inc...