Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World (Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, vol. 9) PDF
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Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World Mnemosyne Supplements Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature Editedby G.J. Boter A. Chaniotis K. Coleman I.J.F. de Jong T. Reinhardt VOLUME335 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.nl/mns Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, vol. 9 Editedby Elizabeth Minchin LEIDEN•BOSTON 2012 Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData InternationalConferenceonOralityandLiteracyintheAncientWorld(9th:2010:Canberra, Australia) Orality,literacyandperformanceintheancientworld/editedbyElizabethMinchin. p.cm.–(Mnemosynesupplements.MonographsonGreekandLatinlanguageand literature,ISSN0169-8958;335) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-90-04-21774-4(hardcover:alk.paper) 1.Oralcommunication–Greece–Congresses.2.Writtencommunication–Greece– Congresses.3.Transmissionoftexts–Greece–Congresses. I.Minchin,Elizabeth.II.Title. 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CONTENTS Preface ................................................................. vii NotesonContributors................................................. ix Introduction ........................................................... xi ElizabethMinchin PARTI POETRYINPERFORMANCE TheAudienceExpects:PenelopeandOdysseus ...................... 3 AdrianKelly ThePresentationofSonginHomer’sOdyssey ........................ 25 DeborahBeck ComparativePerspectivesontheCompositionoftheHomeric Simile................................................................ 55 JonathanReady ComposingLines,PerformingActs:Clauses,DiscourseActs,and MelodicUnitsinaSouthSlavicEpicSong......................... 89 AnnaBonifaziandDavidF.Elmer WorksandDaysAsPerformance...................................... 111 RuthScodel PARTII LITERACYANDORALITY EmpoweringtheSacred:TheFunctionoftheSanskritTextina ContemporaryExpositionoftheBha¯gavatapura¯n.a ............... 129 McComasTaylor PromptsforParticipationinEarlyPhilosophicalTexts .............. 151 JamesHendersonCollinsII PerforminganAcademicTalk:ProclusonHesiod’sWorksandDays 183 PatriziaMarzillo vi contents TheCriticism—andthePractice—ofLiteracyintheAncient PhilosophicalTradition............................................. 201 MathildeCambron-Goulet ReadingBooks,TalkingCulture:ThePerformanceofPaideiain ImperialGreekLiterature........................................... 227 JeroenLauwers EumolpusPoetaatWork:RehearsedSpontaneityintheSatyricon .. 245 NiallW.Slater Index ................................................................... 265 PREFACE The ninth conference in the international Orality and Literacy series (‘OralityandLiteracyintheAncientGreekandRomanWorld:Compo- sitionandPerformance’)tookplaceattheAustralianNationalUniversity inCanberrainJune–July.Somescholarsattendingthisninthbien- nialconferencehadattendedallprecedingmeetingsintheseries;several participants hadattendedanumberoftheearliergatherings;forothers thiswastheirfirstexperienceoftheOrality ‘network’. Thereisadegree ofwarmthandgoodwillthatdistinguishesthisseriesfrommanyothers, perhapsbecausetheconferenceparticipants,drawntogetherfromdiffer- entfieldsbytheirmutual interestinoraltheory,findtheirowninterest sharpenedonlearninghowtheconceptsoforalitymaybeextendedand appliedacrosstheclassicalworld(and,ofcourse,beyond). The conference from which these papers emerged was supported by grants from the Australian Academy of the Humanities, from the School of Cultural Inquiry at the Australian National University, and fromtheAustralasian Society for ClassicalStudies, whosecontribution tocostsenabledAustralian postgraduatestudentstoparticipate fully in conferenceactivities.Igratefullyacknowledgethesupportofthesethree bodies.Ithankmythreeassistantsduringtheconferenceperiod—Abel Chen, Sarah Hendriks, and Fiona Sweet Formiatti—for their support, and for their care and concern for our guests. And on behalf of all participantsIexpressmygratitudetoDrLukeTaylor,DeputyPrincipalof theAustralianInstituteofAboriginalandTorresStraitIslanderStudies, whogave upan afternoontotalktousaboutAboriginal contemporary art and oral culture as representedin the Kuninjku bark painting from WesternArnhemLand. Toputtogetherthisvolume,theoutcomeoftheconference,hasbeen a delight. Each of the papers included here offers us new insights into oralcompositionandoralperformanceintheancientworld,bothbefore theadvent ofliteracyandafter.Ithankallcontributorsfortheirwilling cooperation in meeting deadlines; and I thank the readers from across theworld,whorespondedsograciouslytomyrequeststoreadandreport onthemanuscriptsubmissions.IammorethanalittlegratefultoAnne Mackay,anOralityandLiteracyeditortwice-over,forhersageadviceat variousstagesofthisproject.Finally,IthanktheeditoratBrill,Irenevan viii preface RossumandherassistantsCarolinevanErpandLauradelaRiefortheir assistancewithmyqueriesatmanypointsintheproposalandpublication process. As far as style and formatting is concerned, I have followed certain ratherrelaxedprecedentsofearliervolumesinthisseries.Authorshave been given the freedom to use English or American spellings and Hel- lenized or Latinized spellings of ancient Greek names. Abbreviations, however, follow L’Année philologiquefor journals and the Oxford Clas- sicalDictionary(rded.)forancientauthorsandtheirworks,andother commonreferences. ElizabethMinchin ClassicsandAncientHistory TheAustralianNationalUniversity June NOTESONCONTRIBUTORS Deborah Beck, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin,Austin,TX,USA. Anna Bonifazi, Head of an Emmy-Noether independent research group,DepartmentofClassicalPhilology,Heidelberg,Germany. MathildeCambron-Goulet,doctoralstudent,UniversitédeMontréal, Montréal,Québec,Canada. JamesHendersonCollinsII,AssistantProfessorofClassics,University ofSouthernCalifornia,LosAngeles,CA,USA. DavidF.Elmer,AssistantProfessor,DepartmentoftheClassics,Harvard University,Cambridge,MA,USA. Adrian Kelly, Fellow and Tutor in Ancient Greek Literature, Balliol College,UniversityofOxford. JeroenLauwers,doctoralstudentinClassics,supportedbytheResearch FoundationFlanders,CatholicUniversityofLeuven(Belgium). Patrizia Marzillo, Assistant Professor of Greek Philology, Ludwig- Maximilians-University, Munich,Germany. Jonathan Ready, AssistantProfessor of Classical Studies, Indiana Uni- versity,Bloomington,IN,USA. RuthScodel,D.R.ShackletonBaileyCollegiate ProfessorofGreekand Latin,TheUniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor,MI,USA. Niall W. Slater, Samuel Candler Dobbs ProfessorofLatin and Greek, EmoryUniversity,Atlanta,GA,USA. McComasTaylor, Head,SouthAsiaProgram,College ofAsiaandthe Pacific,AustralianNationalUniversity,CanberraACTAustralia.
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