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Brill
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268

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Table of Contents

Pt. 1. Poetry in performance
The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus / Adrian Kelly
The presentation of song in Homer's odyssey / Deborah Beck
Comparative perspectives on the composition of the Homeric simile / Jonathon Ready
Composing lines, performing acts: clauses, discourse acts, and melodic units in a south slavic epic song / Anna Bonifazi and David F. Elmer
Works and days as performance / Ruth Scodel
Pt. 2. Literacy and orality
Empowering the sacred: the function of the Sanskrit text in a contemporary exposition of the Bhagavatapurana/ McComas Taylor
Prompts for participation in early philosophical texts/ James Henderson Collins II
Performing an academic talk: Proclus on Hesiod's works and days / Patrizia Marzillo
The criticism-and the practice-of literacy in the ancient philosophical tradition / Mathilde Cambron-Goulet
Reading books, talking culture: the performance of Paideia in imperial greek literature / Jeroen Lauwers
Eumolpus poeta at work: rehearsed spontaneity in the Satyricon / Niall Slater.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Leiden, Boston
Series
Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature -- 335

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Dewey Decimal Class
880.9/001
Library of Congress
P92.G75 I535 2011, P92.G75 I535 2010, GR72.3, P92.G75 I535 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
268

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Open Library
OL25054077M
ISBN 13
9789004217744
LCCN
2011036943
OCLC/WorldCat
755004190

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