Between Orality and Literacy

Communication and Adaptation in Antiquity
approx. 384 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-26912-5
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 367, 387 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 732 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

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 letter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scodel, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Scodel (PhD, Harvard 1978) is D. R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. Her many publications on Greek literature emphasize Homer and tragedy, including Greek Tragedy: an Introduction for Students (2010).