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BetweenOralityandLiteracy:CommunicationandAdaptationinAntiquity Mnemosyne Supplements monographs on greek and latin language and literature ExecutiveEditor G.J.Boter(VUUniversityAmsterdam) EditorialBoard A.Chaniotis(Oxford) K.M.Coleman(Harvard) I.J.F.deJong(UniversityofAmsterdam) T.Reinhardt(Oxford) volume 367 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/mns Between Orality and Literacy: Communication and Adaptation in Antiquity OralityandLiteracyintheAncientWorld,vol.10 Editedby RuthScodel leiden|boston LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData InternationalConferenceonOralityandLiteracyintheAncientWorld(10th:2012:AnnArbor,Michigan) Betweenoralityandliteracy:communicationandadaptationinantiquity/editedbyRuthScodel. pagescm.–(Mnemosynesupplements.MonographsonGreekandLatinlanguageandliterature,ISSN 0169-8958;367)(Oralityandliteracyintheancientworld;vol.10) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-90-04-26912-5(hardback:alk.paper)–ISBN978-90-04-27097-8(e-book)1.Oral communication–Greece–Congresses.2.Oralcommunication–Rome–Congresses.3.Written communication–Greece–Congresses.4.Writtencommunication–Rome–Congresses.5.Transmissionof texts–Greece–Congresses.6.Transmissionoftexts–Rome–Congresses.7.Oraltraditionin literature–Greece–Congresses.8.Oraltraditioninliterature–Rome–Congresses.9.Oral-formulaic analysis–Congresses.I.Scodel,Ruth,editorofcompilation.II.Title. P92.G75I53532014 302.2'24093–dc23 2014004100 Thispublicationhasbeentypesetinthemultilingual“Brill”typeface.Withover5,100characterscovering Latin,ipa,Greek,andCyrillic,thistypefaceisespeciallysuitableforuseinthehumanities.Formore information,pleaseseewww.brill.com/brill-typeface. issn0169-8958 isbn978-90-04-26912-5(hardback) isbn978-90-04-27097-8(e-book) Copyright2014byKoninklijkeBrillnv,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillnvincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillNijhoff,GlobalOrientalandHoteiPublishing. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillnvprovided thattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive, Suite910,Danvers,ma01923,usa.Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. Contents Preface vii NotesonContributors viii Introduction 1 RuthScodel ControllingtheWeb:Hypertextuality,theIliad,andtheCrimesof PreviousGenerations 6 JamesO’Maley OmensandMessagesintheIliadandOdyssey:AStudyin Transmission 29 JonathanL.Ready PropheticHesiod 56 RuthScodel Λάβετὸβυβλίον:OralityandLiteracyinAristophanes 77 CarlA.AndersonandT.KeithDix BoreasandOreithyia:ACase-StudyinMultichannelTransmissionof Myth 87 MargalitFinkelberg ThePoetandthePainter:AHymntoZeusonaCupbytheBrygos Painter 101 JasperGaunt StoryTimeattheLibrary:PalaephatusandtheEmergenceofHighly LiterateMythology 125 GretaHawes OralityinPhilosophicalEpistles 148 MathildeCambron-Goulet LookandListen:HistoryPerformedandInscribed 175 RachelZelnick-Abramovitz vi contents SpokenPrayersandWrittenInstructionsintheCentralItalianCultural KoinêandBeyond 197 JayFisher OralTextualityasaLanguageofExclusiveCommunicationinTerence’s Prologues 218 SophiaPapaioannou SimileStructureinHomericEpicandVergil’sAeneid 244 DeborahBeck Poet,Audience,Time,andText:ReflectionsonMediumandModein HomerandVirgil 267 ElizabethMinchin SpeakingVersetoPower:CirculationofOralandWrittenCritiqueinthe LivesoftheCaesars 289 NiallW.Slater TheBookofRevelation:AWrittenTextTowardstheOral Performance 309 LourdesGarcíaUreña TheEndofOrality:TransmissionofGospelTraditionintheSecondand ThirdCenturies 331 S.D.Charlesworth TransmittingLegalKnowledge:FromQuestion-and-AnswerFormatto HandbookinGaius’Institutes 356 MatthijsWibier IndexofAncientTexts 375 GeneralIndex 383 Preface The conferencefrom which this volumederives tookplace at the University ofMichigan,AnnArbor,inJune2012.IwouldliketothanktheDepartments ofClassicalStudiesandNearEasternStudies,alongwiththeInstituteforthe Humanities,theCollegeofLiterature,Science,andtheArts,andtheRackham SchoolofGraduateStudiesforfinancialsupport,themanystudentswhovol- unteered, and as always the staff of the Department of Classical Studies and CarlAbregooftheKelseyMuseum. AuthorshaveusedeitherBritishorAmericansystemsofspelling,punctua- tion,andbibliographiesshowminordifferencesincitationpractice,butIhope thatnoreaderwillhavedifficulty.Forhelpwithproofreading,copyediting,and checkingforidiominthecontributionsbythosewhoarenotnativespeakersof English,thanksareowedMichigangraduatestudentsAmyPistone,Elizabeth Nabney,andAlisonKemmerle. Notes on Contributors CarlA.Anderson Emeritus,MichiganStateUniversity DeborahBeck AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofClassics,UniversityofTexasatAustin MathildeCambron-GouletMathildeCambron-Goulet SSHRCpostdoctoralfellow,UniversitéParis7Diderot ScottD.Charlesworth Senior Lecturer,School of Theology,PacificAdventistUniversity,Papua New Guinea T.KeithDix AssociateProfessor,ClassicsDepartment.UniversityofGeorgia,Athens,Geor- gia MargalitFinkelberg ProfessorofClassics,TelAvivUniversity LourdesGarcíaUreña Profesor Adjunto de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Comuni- caciónUniversidadCEU—SanPablo JasperGaunt CuratorofGreekandRomanArt,MichaelC.CarlosMuseum,EmoryUniversity, Atlanta GretaHawes LecturerinClassics,AustralianNationalUniversity ElizabethMinchin ProfessorofClassicsattheAustralianNationalUniversity,Canberra,Australia JamesO’Maley PhDcandidateinClassics,UniversityofMelbourne notes on contributors ix SophiaPapaioannou AssociateProfessorofLatinLiterature,National&KapodistrianUniversityof Athens JonathanL.Ready AssociateProfessor,DepartmentofClassicalStudies,IndianaUniversity RuthScodel D.R.ShackletonBaileyCollegeProfessorofGreekandLatin NiallW.Slater SamuelCandlerDobbsProfessorofLatinandGreek,EmoryUniversity MatthijsWibier LecturerinClassicsandAncientMediterraneanStudiesatThePennsylvania StateUniversity RachelZelnick-Abramovitz SeniorLecturerattheDepartmentofClassics,Tel-AvivUniversity

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