The essays in ‘Between Orality and Literacy’ address how oral and literature practices intersect as messages, texts, practices, and traditions move and change, because issues of orality and literacy are especially complex and significant when information is transmitted over wide expanses of time and space or adapted in new contexts. Their topics range from Homer and Hesiod to the New Testament and Gaius’ ‘Institutes’, from epic poetry and drama to vase painting, historiography, mythography, and the philosophical letter. Repeatedly they return to certain issues. Writing and orality are not mutually exclusive, and their interaction is not always in a single direction. Authors, whether they use writing or not, try to control the responses of a listening audience. A variable tradition can be fixed, not just by writing as a technology, but by such different processes as the establishment of a Panhellenic version of an Attic myth and a Hellenistic city’s creation of a single celebratory history

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Michigan) International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World (10th 2012 Ann Arbor

edited by Ruth Scodel

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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava, Leiden, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Between Orality and Literacy: Communication and Adaptation in Antiquity 4
Contents 6
Preface 8
Notes on Contributors 9
Ruth Scodel: Introduction 12
Bibliography 16
James O’Maley: Controlling the Web: Hypertextuality, the Iliad, and the Crimes of Previous Generations 17
Introduction: Hypertextual Theories and Homeric Poetry 17
Three Hypertextual Examples: Blogs, Wikis, and Google 20
Hypertextual Examples: The Blog 21
Hypertextual Examples: Wikis and Google Searches 23
Homeric Analogues: Atasthaliai 24
Conclusions: Paths through the Web 35
Bibliography 35
Jonathan L. Ready: Omens and Messages in the Iliad and Odyssey: A Study in Transmission 40
I Omens 41
II Messenger Scenes 43
III Omens Again 48
Bibliography 61
Ruth Scodel: Prophetic Hesiod 67
Bibliography 85
Carl A. Anderson and Keith T. Dix: Λάβε τὸ βυβλίον: Orality and Literacy in Aristophanes 88
Bibiography 96
Margalit Finkelberg: Boreas and Oreithyia: A Case-Study in Multichannel Transmission of Myth 98
Mapping the Channels of Transmission 98
Boreas and Oreithyia before 480 BCE 100
(a) Literary Channels 100
(b) Non-Literary Channels 101
Boreas and Oreithyia between 480 and 350 BCE 102
(a) Literary Channels 102
(b) Non-Literary Channels 104
Boreas and Oreithyia after 350 BCE 106
(a) Literary Channels 106
(b) Non-Literary Channels 107
Multichannel Transmission 108
Bibliography 111
Jasper Gaunt: The Poet and the Painter: A Hymn to Zeus on a Cup by the Brygos Painter 112
Bibliography 130
Greta Hawes: Story Time at the Library: Palaephatus and the Emergence of Highly Literate Mythology 136
1 Introduction 136
2 Literate Culture and Mythic Traditions 140
3 A Guide for Readers 146
4 Palaephatus on Oral Culture 147
5 The New Mythology 151
Bibliography 156
Mathilde Cambron-Goulet: Orality in Philosophical Epistles 159
Remarks 159
Letters in Their Materiality 162
Writing Letters for Pedagogical Purposes 167
Reception and Transmission of Letters in Philosophical Communities 171
Conclusion 176
Bibliography 178
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz: Look and Listen: History Performed and Inscribed 186
Bibliography 205
Jay Fisher: Spoken Prayers and Written Instructions in the Central Italian Cultural Koinê and Beyond 208
First Person and Third Person in the Early Central Italian Koinê 211
Spoken Prayers and Written Instructions in the Central Koinê 212
Spoken Prayers and Written Instructions in Latin Poetry: Two Case Studies 222
Bibliography 227
Sophia Papaioannou: Oral Textuality as a Language of Exclusive Communication in Terence’s Prologues 229
Introduction 229
Assessment of Knowledge Communicated through the Prologues 231
The Special Rapport with the Literate Audience 235
The Appeal to the Illiterate 245
Conclusion 249
Bibliography 250
Deborah Beck: Simile Structure in Homeric Epic and Vergil’s Aeneid 255
Patterns of Simile Structures in Homeric Epic and Vergil’s Aeneid 258
Similes with no Explicit Exit: Nisus and Euryalus 266
Homeric Structure: Turnus 270
Bibliography 276
Elizabeth Minchin: Poet, Audience, Time, and Text: Reflections on Medium and Mode in Homer and Virgil 278
Introduction: Talking and Listening; Writing and Reading 278
Texts Composed Orally for a Listening Audience: The Homeric Epics 281
Oral Epic and the Stylization of Ordinary Discourse 282
Strategies of Composition: The Oral Poet and His Audience of Listeners 283
A Text Composed in Writing: Virgil’s Aeneid 286
Listeners and Readers 286
Strategies of Composition: Virgil and His Audiences of Listeners and Readers 288
The Opportunities Offered by Literacy, and Its Challenges 293
Medium, Mode, and Strategies of Presentation 295
Bibliography 296
Niall W. Slater: Speaking Verse to Power: Circulation of Oral and Written Critique in the Lives of the Caesars 300
Bibliography 318
Lourdes García Ureña: The Book of Revelation: A Written Text Towards the Oral Performance 320
1 Introduction: The Book of Revelation, a Written Text 320
2 The Book of Revelation and the Oral Performance 321
3 Formulaic Language 324
3.1 Designation Formulas 327
3.2 Identity Formulas 328
3.3 Formulas of Opposites 329
3.4 Traditional Formulas 330
3.5 Global Vision of the Function of the Formula 330
4 Additive Structures 331
5 Narrator’s Comments 333
5.1 The Apostrophe 333
5.2 The Explanatory Note 336
5.3 Synthesis of the Narrator’s Comments 338
6 Conclusion 338
Bibliography 339
S.D. Charlesworth: The End of Orality: Transmission of Gospel Tradition in the Second and Third Centuries 342
A Fluidity in Transmission of the Canonical Gospels 343
B The Authorial Framework of Non-Canonical Gospel Papyri 343
1 P.Oxy. 4.654 (= GTh Incipit, 1–7) 344
2 P.Oxy. 1.1 (= GTh 26–33, 77b) 349
C The End of Orality 352
1 P.Egerton inv. 2 (+ P.Köln 6.255), fr. 1 353
2 Papias and the Transition from Oral to Textual Dominance 359
D Conclusion 362
Bibliography 363
Matthijs Wibier: Transmitting Legal Knowledge: From Question-and-Answer Format to Handbook in Gaius’ Institutes 367
Juristic Question-and-Answer Sessions and Old-School Legal Education 371
Legal Quaestiones in Gaius’ Institutes 374
Conclusion: Oral Discourse, Written Text 380
Bibliography 382
Index of Ancient Texts 386
General Index 394

Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Ruth Scodel
Controlling the Web: Hypertextuality, the Iliad, and the Crimes of Previous Generations
James O’Maley
Omens and Messages in the Iliad and Odyssey: A Study in Transmission
Jonathan L. Ready
Prophetic Hesiod
Ruth Scodel
Λάβε τὸ βυβλίον: Orality and Literacy in Aristophanes
Carl Anderson and Keith Dix
Boreas and Oreithyia: A Case-Study in Multichannel Transmission of Myth
Margalit Finkelberg
The Poet and the Painter: A Hymn to Zeus on a Cup by the Brygos Painter
Jasper Gaunt
Story Time at the Library: Palaephatus and the Emergence of Highly Literate Mythology
Greta Hawes
Orality in Philosophical Epistles
Mathilde Cambron-Goulet
Look and Listen: History Performed and Inscribed
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Spoken Prayers and Written Instructions in the Central Italian Cultural Koinê and Beyond
Jay Fisher
Oral Textuality as a Language of Exclusive Communication in Terence’s Prologues
Sophia Papaioannou
Simile Structure in Homeric Epic and Vergil’s Aeneid
Deborah Beck
Poet, Audience, Time, and Text: Reflections on Medium and Mode in Homer and Virgil
Elizabeth Minchin
Speaking Verse to Power: Circulation of Oral and Written Critique in the Lives of the Caesars
Niall Slater
The Book of Revelation: A Written Text Towards the Oral Performance
Lourdes García Ureña
The End of Orality: Transmission of Gospel Tradition in the Second and Third Centuries
S.D. Charlesworth
Transmitting Legal Knowledge: From Question-and-Answer Format to Handbook in Gaius’Institutes
Matthijs Wibier
Index

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