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The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in the ancient Greek culture. Considering the critical debate about orality, the analysis of the communicative system in a predominantly oral-aural ancient society implies a reassessment and a deep reconsideration of the traces which orality embedded in the texts transmitted to us. In particular, the focus is on the 'cultural message', a set of information which is processed and transmitted vertically as well as horizontally by a living being, so to be differently from a genetically encoded information, a culturally defined process. The survey intertwines different approaches: the methodologies of cognitivism, biology, ethology, to analyze the embrional processes of the cultural messages, and the tools of historical and literary analysis, to highlight the development of the cultural messages in the traditional knowledge, their codification, transmission, and evolutions in the dialectics between orality and writing. The reconstructed pattern of the mechanisms of cultural messages in a prevailing oral-aural system cast a light on a shadowy aspect of a sophisticated communication system that has long influenced European culture.

Andrea Ercolani and Laura Lulli
Introduction. Rethinking Orality: Some Reasons for a Research ...VII
Simone Gozzano
The Sources of Orality: Belief, Opinion, Acceptance ...1
Paolo Pecere
Words, Gestures, Brains and Caves. Remarks on the Material Bases of Language ...19
Giovanna Simonetti
Epigenetic Cell Memory ...37
Federico Albano Leoni
Some Remarks on Orality and the Antinomy between Writing and Speaking in
Western Linguistic Thought ...49
Olga Capirci and Chiara Bonsignori
Beyond Orality: The Case of Sign Languages ...69
Andrea Ercolani
Epic and Ethology: The ‘Saddleback Model’. An Analogical Model for the
Study of Archaic Greek Epic ...89
Riccardo Palmisciano
To Speak Like a Bird: Beyond a Literary Topos ...105
Lucio Del Corso
Epos and Paideia between Orality and Writing ...119
Livio Sbardella
Muses and Teachers: Poets’ Apprenticeship in the Greek Epic
Tradition ...147
Manuela Giordano
From Oral Theory to Neuroscience: a Dialogue on Communication ...167
Mauro Tulli
Plato and the Charm of Epideictics in the Menexenus ...199
Dino De Sanctis
Erga Gynaikon: Female Supremacy in the Hesiodic Catalogue of
Women ...215
Index of Discussed Passages ...233
Index of Notable Things ...237