Politics of Orality

CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 10
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 20
Part I EPIC, ORALITY AND POLITICS......Page 22
THE LANGUAGE OF HEROES AND THE LANGUAGE OF HEROINES: STORYTELLING IN ORAL TRADITIONAL EPIC --- Elizabeth Minchin......Page 24
“SUMMONING TOGETHER ALL THE PEOPLE”: VARIANT TELLINGS OF THE MWINDO EPIC AS SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DELIBERATION --- Nathalia King......Page 60
ORALITY AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM: THE HOMERIC HYMNS --- Franco Ferrari......Page 74
ORALITY AND THE POLITICS OF SCHOLARSHIP --- Annette Teffeteller......Page 88
Part II POLITICAL MANIPULATION OF TEXTS......Page 108
WRITTEN LISTS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL IN CLASSICAL ATHENS --- Geoffrey W. Bakewell......Page 110
WHY THE ATHENIANS FORGOT CLEISTHENES: LITERACY AND THE POLITICS OF REMEMBRANCE IN ANCIENT ATHENS --- Greg Anderson......Page 124
LYCURGUS AND THE STATE TEXT OF TRAGEDY --- Ruth Scodel......Page 150
MYTH AND WRITING IN AESCHINES’ AGAINST TIMARCHUS --- Guy Olding......Page 176
ORALITY AND THE POLITICS OF ROMAN PEACEMAKING --- L.T. Zollschan......Page 192
Part III THE ORAL AND WRITTEN CONTROVERSY: PRIVILEGING LITERACY......Page 212
THEOGNIS’ SPHRÊGIS: ARISTOCRATIC SPEECH AND THE PARADOXES OF WRITING --- Thomas Hubbard......Page 214
THUCYDIDES’ HISTORY LIVE: RECEPTION AND POLITICS --- James V. Morrison......Page 238
FROM ORALITY TO LITERACY: THE MORAL EDUCATION OF THE ELITE IN FOURTH-CENTURY ATHENS --- Frances Pownall......Page 256
WRITING DIVINE SPEECH: GREEK TRANSLITERATIONS OF NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES IN THE HELLENISTIC EAST --- Matthew J. Martin......Page 272
Part IV THE ORAL AND WRITTEN CONTROVERSY: PRIVILEGING ORALITY......Page 296
FIGHTING THE FUTURE: EURIPIDEAN LETTERS AND THUCYDIDES’ ATHENS --- E.M. Griffiths......Page 298
ELITIST ORALITY AND THE TRIVIALITY OF WRITING --- Margalit Finkelberg......Page 314
NERONIAN ORAL POLITICS: THE CASE OF MUSONIUS RUFUS --- Niall W. Slater......Page 328
Part V ORALITY AND WRITTEN LAW......Page 340
ORAL “AGREEMENT”, WRITTEN CONTRACT, AND THE BONDS OF LAW AT ATHENS --- Edwin Carawan......Page 342
DID THE ATHENIAN COURTS ATTEMPT TO ACHIEVE CONSISTENCY? ORAL TRADITION AND WRITTEN RECORDS IN THE ATHENIAN ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE --- Edward M. Harris......Page 364
SELECT INDEX......Page 392