Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire
By: edited by Consuela Ruiz Montero
Series: Pierides: studies in Greek and Latin literature -- Volume VIII; Pierides -- v. 8.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publisher
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9781527538115
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Greek literature; History and criticism; Inscriptions; Oral tradition; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface ; Introduction / Consuelo Ruiz-Montero ; Chapter One. The Oral Transmission of Memory in the Greek Cities of the Imperial Period / Angelos Chaniotis ; Chapter Two. Poetic and Prose Oral Performance in the Greek World of the Roman Empire / Ewen Bowie ; Chapter Three. Writing, Orality and Paideia in Plutarch{u2019}s The Banquet of the Seven Sages / José-Antonio Fernández Delgado ; Chapter Four. Plutarch and the Novel: Register and Embedded Narratives in the De genio Socratis and in Achilles Tatius / Harold Tarrant ; Chapter Five. Oral Tales and Greek Fictional Narrative in Roman Imperial Prose / Consuelo Ruiz-Montero ; Chapter Six. Embedded Orality in Apuleius{u2019} Metamorphoses and Florida / Loreto Núñez ; Chapter Seven. The Spoken Word, or the Prestige of Orality in Lucian / Francesca Mestre ; Chapter Eight. {u2018}Comic Books{u2019} in Greco-Roman Antiquity / Antonio Stramaglia ; Chapter Nine. Jokes between Orality and Writing: The Case of the Philogelos / Mario Andreassi ; Chapter Ten. Oral and Material Aspects of Sanctuaries in Roman Greece: Delphi, Plutarch and Pausanias / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis ; Chapter Eleven. Egyptian Literature and Orality in the Roman Period / Jacqueline E. Jay ; Chapter Twelve. The Island that was a Fish: An Ancient Folktale in the Alexander Romance and in Other Texts of Late Antiquity / Ioannis M. Konstantakos.