Voice and Voices in Antiquity

456 Pages·2016·1.947 MB·English

by  Slater, Niall W.

VoiceandVoicesinAntiquity
Mnemosyne
Supplements
monographs on greek and
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G.J.Boter(vuUniversityAmsterdam)
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A.Chaniotis(InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton)
K.M.Coleman(HarvardUniversity)
I.J.F.deJong(UniversityofAmsterdam)
T.Reinhardt(OxfordUniversity)
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Voice and Voices in Antiquity
OralityandLiteracyintheAncientWorld,vol.11
Editedby
NiallW.Slater
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
NotesonContributors x
1 Introduction 1
NiallW.Slater
part 1
EpicVoices
2 VoiceandVoices:HomerandtheStewardshipofMemory 11
ElizabethMinchin
3 WhichLimitsforSpeechReporting?MessengerScenesandControlof
RepetitionintheIliad 31
OmbrettaCesca
4 TheVoiceoftheSeerintheIliadandtheOdyssey 54
DeborahBeck
5 TheIndividualVoiceinWorksandDays 74
RuthScodel
6 Nestor’sCupandItsReception 92
JasperGaunt
part 2
LyricandDramaticVoices
7 Pindar’sVoice(s):TheEpinicianPersonaReconsidered 123
ClaasLattmann
8 PoetaLoquens:PoeticVoicesinPindar’sPaean6andHorace’s
Odes4.6 149
MargaretFoster
vi contents
9 MelizeinPatheortheTonalDimensioninAeschylus’Agamemnon:
Voice,Song,andChoreiaasLeitmotifsandMetatragicSignalsfor
ExpressingSuffering 166
AntonBierl
10 Daphnis’Folksong:TheEuphonist’sEffectontheCreationofa
TextualPerformance 208
NaomiKaloudis
part 3
FromSingingtoNarrativeVoice
11 TowardsaGrammarofNarrativeVoice:FromHomericPragmaticsto
HellenisticStylistics 233
AndreasWilli
12 TheVoiceofAeschylusinPlato’sRepublic 260
GeoffreyW.Bakewell
13 CharacterinNarrativeDepictionsofComposingOralEpicsand
ReadingHistoriographies 277
RaymondF.Person,Jr.
part 4
VoicesofProse
14 WrittenRecordandMembershipinPersianPeriodJudahand
ClassicalAthens 297
AubreyE.Buster
15 VoicedMathematics:OralityandNumeracy 321
TazukoAngelavanBerkel
16 Cicero’sRepresentationofanOralCommunityinDeOratore 351
JoannaKenty
17 BecomingGallic:Orality,VoiceandIdentityinRomanGaul 377
JayFisher
contents vii
18 λόγοςandφωνήinOdyssey10andPlutarch’sGryllus 397
AthenaKirk
19 TheFragranceoftheRose:AnImageoftheVoiceinAchilles
Tatius 416
AmyKoenig
Index 433

Acknowledgements
TheconferencefromwhichthisvolumeofOralityandLiteracyintheAncient
WorldderivestookplaceatEmoryUniversity,Atlanta,Georgia,inSeptember
2014. I thank the Department of Classics, the Program in Ancient Mediter-
raneanStudies,andtheEmoryConferenceCenterSubventionFundfortheir
generousfinancialsupport.Myparticulargratitudegoestothecolleagues,staff,
andstudentsatEmorywhogenerouslyvolunteeredtheirtimeandtalentsboth
inthepreparationsfortheconferenceanditssmoothrunning,andaboveall
toJohnBlack,ournonpareildepartmentaladministrator,whosepersonaland
financialacumensupportedeverystep.
AuthorshaveusedeitherBritishorAmericanconventionsofspellingandpunc-
tuation,andbibliographiesshowminordifferencesincitationpractices,but
Itrustthesewillinnowayinconveniencereaders.Forhelpwithpreparation
of computer files for the press and proofreading I am indebted to my very
giftedstudentassistantJamieDawesandouroutstandingdepartmentalassis-
tantKimOliphant.
Notes on Contributors
GeoffreyW.Bakewell
ProfessorofGreekandRomanStudiesatRhodesCollege,Memphis,Tennessee
DeborahBeck
AssociateProfessorofClassics,UniversityofTexasatAustin
AntonBierl
ProfessorofClassics,especiallyGreekLiterature,UniversityofBasel,Switzer-
land
AubreyE.Buster
PhDCandidateinHebrewBible,EmoryUniversity,Atlanta
OmbrettaCesca
PhDCandidateinAncientGreek,UniversityofLausanne
JayFisher
VisitingAssistantProfessorofClassics,RutgersUniversity
MargaretFoster
AssistantProfessor,ClassicalStudies,IndianaUniversity,Bloomington,Indiana
JasperGaunt
CuratorofGreekandRomanArt,MichaelC.CarlosMuseum,EmoryUniversity,
Atlanta
NaomiKaloudis
VisitingAssistantProfessorofClassics,ValparaisoUniversity
JoannaKenty
Post-doctoralResearchandTeachingAssociateinClassicsfortheResponsible
Governance and Sustainable Citizenship Program, University of New Hamp-
shire
AthenaKirk
AssistantProfessorofClassics,CornellUniversity