Politics of Orality

EPIC, ORALITY AND POLITICS. The Language of Heroes and the Language of Heroines: storytelling in oral traditional epic / Elizabeth Minchin -- "Summoning Together all the People": variant tellings of the Mwindo Epic as social and political deliberation / Nathalia King -- Orality and Textual Criticism: the Homeric Hymns / Franco Ferrari -- Orality and the Politics of Scholarship / Annette Teffeteller -- POLITICAL MANIPULATION OF TEXTS. Written Lists of Military Personnel in Classical Athens / Geoffrey W. Bakewell -- Why the Athenians forgot Cleisthenes: literacy and the politics of remembrance in ancient Athens / Greg Anderson -- Lycurgus and the State Text of Tragedy / Ruth Scodel -- Myth and Writing in Aeschines' Against Timarchus / Guy Olding -- Orality and the Politics of Roman Peacemaking / Linda T. Zollschan -- THE ORAL AND WRITTEN CONTROVERSY: PRIVILEGING LITERACY. Theognis' Sphregis: Aristocratic Speech and the Paradoxes of Writing / Thomas Hubbard -- Thucydides' History Live: reception and politics / James V. Morrison -- From Orality to Literacy: The Moral Education of the Elite in Fourth-Century Athens / Frances Pownall -- Writing Divine Speech: Greek transliterations of Near Eastern languages in the Hellenistic East / Matthew J. Martin -- THE ORAL AND WRITTEN CONTROVERSY: PRIVILEGING ORALITY. Fighting the Future: Euripidean letters and Thucydides' Athens / Emma M. Griffiths -- Elitist Orality and the Triviality of Writing / Margalit Finkelberg -- Neronian Oral Politics: the case of Musonius Rufus / Niall Slater -- ORALITY AND WRITTEN LAW. Oral "Agreement", Written Contract, and the Bonds of Law at Athens / Edwin Carawan -- Did the Athenian Courts Attempt to Achieve Consistency? Oral tradition and written records in the Athenian administration of justice / Edward M. Harris.