Orality, Literacy, Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman World: Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece (Mnemosyne Supplements)

297 Pages·2008·1.65 MB·English

by  E. A. Mackay (editor)

Orality, Literacy, Memory
in the Ancient Greek and Roman World
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Mnemosyne
Supplements
Monographs on Greek and
Roman Language and Literature
Editorial Board
G.J. Boter
A. Chaniotis
K. Coleman
I.J.F. de Jong
P.H. Schrijvers
VOLUME 298
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Orality, Literacy, Memory
in the Ancient Greek and Roman World
(Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece, vol. 7)
Edited by
E. Anne Mackay
LEIDEN (cid:129) BOSTON
2008
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Orality, literacy, memory in the ancient Greek and Roman world / edited by E. Anne Mackay.
p. cm. — (Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 298)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-16991-3 (hardback : alk. paper)
1. Classical literature—History and criticism. 2. Language and culture—Greece.
3. Language and culture—Rome. 4. Oral tradition in literature. 5. Literacy—Greece.
6. Literacy—Rome. I. Mackay, E. Anne. II. Title. III. Series.
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CONTENTS

Preface ................................................................................................... vii
Notes on Contributors ............................................................................ ix
List of Illustrations ................................................................................. xi
Illustrations: Figures 1-11
Introduction ............................................................................................ 1
Anne Mackay
1. Spatial Memory and the Composition of the Iliad .......................... 9
Elizabeth Minchin
2. Memory and Visualization in Homeric Discourse Markers ........... 35
Anna Bonifazi
3. Epic Remembering ......................................................................... 65
Egbert J. Bakker
4. “Someone, I Say, Will Remember Us”: Oral Memory in
Sappho’s Poetry .......................................................................... 79
André Lardinois
5. Remember to Cry Wolf: Visual and Verbal Declarations
of LYKOS KALOS ...................................................................... 97
Alexandra Pappas
6. Social Memory in Aeschylus’ Oresteia .......................................... 115
Ruth Scodel
7. Trierarchs’ Records and the Athenian Naval Catalogue
(IG i3 1032) ................................................................................ 143
Geoffrey Bakewell
8. What the Mnemones Know ............................................................. 163
Edwin Carawan
9. Getting the Last Word: Publication of Political Oratory as
an Instrument of Historical Revisionism .................................... 185
Thomas Hubbard
10. Dialectic in Dialogue: The Message of Plato’s Protagoras
and Aristotle’s Topics ................................................................. 203
Han Baltussen
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11. Visual Copies and Memory ............................................................. 227
Jocelyn Penny Small
12. Orality and Autobiography: The Case of the Res Gestae ............... 253
Niall W. Slater
List of Conference Papers ...................................................................... 275
Index ...................................................................................................... 277
PREFACE

In this selected proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Orality and
Literacy in the Ancient Greek and Roman World are published twelve
papers that cover a wide range of classical research areas, and whose
authors reside in different parts of the world. Editorial decisions were
therefore required with regard to conventions of spelling and referenc-
ing, resulting in the customary inconsistencies. In general Greek names
are represented in transliterated form unless they are very well known in
Latinate versions. Names of ancient authors and their works are, how-
ever, Latinate, which leads to occasional anomalies between the translit-
eration of the names of people and the Latinate works named for them.
Abbreviations follow L’Année Philologique for journals and The Oxford
Classical Dictionary (3rd ed.) for ancient authors and their works, and
other common references; any additional abbreviations are listed in the
bibliographies at the end of each chapter.
I should like to acknowledge with gratitude the financial support of
the Faculty of Arts Research Fund of the University of Auckland, which
made possible the funding of Jocelyn Penny Small as keynote speaker.
Acknowledgement is also due of the selfless contribution of colleagues
around the world who anonymously read the many manuscript submis-
sions, and my appreciative thanks go too to the editorial assistant,
Miriam Bissett. Finally, all who participated in the conference, espe-
cially those who engaged in the often challenging discussions after the
papers, contributed to the general intellectual outcome of the confer-
ence, and so also to the production of this volume of proceedings.

Anne Mackay
Auckland, March 2008

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Geoffrey BAKEWELL, Associate Professor of Classics, Creighton University,
Omaha, NE, USA.
Egbert J. BAKKER, Professor of Classics, Yale University, New Haven, CT,
USA.
Han BALTUSSEN, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient Thought, University
of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
Anna BONIFAZI, Marie Curie Fellow, 2005-2008, Harvard University, Cam-
bridge, MA, USA and Università di Torino, Torino, Italy.
Edwin CARAWAN, Professor of Classics, Missouri State University, Springfield,
MO, USA.
Thomas HUBBARD, Professor of Classics, University of Texas, Austin, TX,
USA.
André LARDINOIS, Professor of Greek Language and Culture, Radboud Univer-
sity, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Elizabeth MINCHIN, Reader in Classics, The Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Alexandra PAPPAS, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, University of Ar-
kansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA.
Ruth SCODEL, D. R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Niall W. SLATER, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek, Emory
University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Jocelyn Penny SMALL, Professor of Art History, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ, USA.