Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens
Series: Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture; 18;
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 5 December 1991
- ISBN 9780521425186
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 230x153x23 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. This is the first major attempt to study the implications of this view.
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Despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. This is the first serious attempt to study the implications of this view. Dr Thomas stresses the coexistence of literacy and oral tradition in Greece and examines their character and interaction. Concentrating on the plentiful evidence from Classical Athens, she shows how the use of writing developed only gradually and under the influence of the previous oral communication. Drawing on anthropological discussion, the author isolates different types of Athenian oral tradition, building up a picture of Athens' traditions about its past and examining why they changed and disappeared. This study provides crucial insights into the methods and achievements of the Greek historians. It also has major implications for the interpretation of ancient literacy.
'Rosalind Thomas has given us a landmark book: sinewy, provocative, closely argued, widely ranging, selectively learned and discreetly imaginative.' Peter Parsons, London Review of Books
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Literacy, written record and oral communication; 2. Family tradition; 3. Genealogy and family tradition: the intrusion of writing; 4. Official tradition? Polis tradition and the epitaphios; 5. The liberation of Athens and the 'Alcmaeonid tradition'; Epilogue; Appendix: early Greek lists; Chronological table; Bibliography; Index.
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