Signs of Orality

The Oral Tradition and Its Influence in the Greek and Roman World
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-11273-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 188, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 649 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

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. Included as well are two discussions of Athenian vase-painting: annular scene-composition in the black-figure tradition, and the implications of kalos-inscriptions. An introduction by leading oral theorist John Miles Foley situates all the essays at the leading edge of oral theoretical development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacKay, E. Anne

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Mackay, Ph.D. (1984) in Classics, Victoria University of Wellington, is Professor of Classics at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. Her publications include specialist studies of ancient Greek vase-painting as well as comparative analyses of vase-painting and oral literature.