Table Of ContentBetweenOralityandLiteracy:CommunicationandAdaptationinAntiquity
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Between Orality and Literacy:
Communication and
Adaptation in Antiquity
OralityandLiteracyintheAncientWorld,vol.10
Editedby
RuthScodel
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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
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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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