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E. A. Mackay (dir.), Orality, literacy, memory in the ancient Greek and Roman world (Orality and literacy in ancient Greece vol. 7)

E. A. Mackay (dir.), Orality, literacy, memory in the ancient Greek and Roman world (Orality and literacy in ancient Greece vol. 7)

Publié le par Sophie Rabau

Orality, literacy, memory in the ancient Greek and Roman world (Orality and literacy in ancient Greece,volume 7).

Sous la direction de E. Anne Mackay

Leiden ; Boston:Brill, coll. "Mnemosyne, Supplements" n°298, 2008. vi-281p.

  • ISBN-13: 978 90 04 16991 3
  • 99€

Recension par Maria Chiara Scappaticcio (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Napoli) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.04.41.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The volumerepresents the seventh in the series on Orality and Literacy in the AncientGreek and Roman Worlds. It comprises a collection of essays on the significanceand working of memory in ancient texts and visual documentation, from contextsboth oral (or oral-derived) and literate. The authors discuss a variety ofinterpretations of ‘memory' in Homeric epic, lyric poetry, tragedy, historicalinscriptions, oratory, and philosophy, as well as in the replication of ancientartworks, and in Greek vase inscriptions. They present therefore a wide-ranginganalysis of memory as a fundamental faculty underlying the production andreception of texts and material documentation in a society that gradually movedfrom an essentially oral to an essentially literate culture.

L'auteur

Anne Mackay, Ph.D. (1984) in Classics, Victoria University of Wellington, isAssociate Professor of Classics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Herpublications include specialist studies of ancient Greek vase-painting as wellas comparative analyses of vase-painting and oral literature.

Contributorsinclude: Geoffrey Bakewell, Egbert Bakker, Han Baltussen, Anna Bonifazi, EdwinCarawan, Thomas Hubbard, André Lardinois, Elizabeth Minchin, Alexandra Pappas,Ruth Scodel, Niall Slater, and Jocelyn Penny Small.