Voice Into Text: Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece

by Ian Worthington

This volume deals with orality and literacy in ancient Greece and what consideration of these areas yields for that society, its literature, traditions and practices. Individual chapters focus on art, comedy, historiography, oratory, religion, rhetoric, philosophy, poetry, tragedy, and on orality in contemporary cultures (Greek and South African), which have a bearing on the ancient world.
By considering such factors as oral elements in various...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004104313
• ISBN13: 9789004104310
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.7"