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The essays in Between Orality and Literacy address how oral and literature practices intersect as messages, texts, practices, and traditions move and change, because issues of orality and literacy are especially complex and significant when information is transmitted over wide expanses of time and space or adapted in new contexts. Their topics range from Homer and Hesiod to the New Testament and Gaius’ Institutes, from epic poetry and drama to vase painting, historiography, mythography, and the philosophical letter. Repeatedly they return to certain issues. Writing and orality are not mutually exclusive, and their interaction is not always in a single direction. Authors, whether they use writing or not, try to control the responses of a listening audience. A variable tradition can be fixed, not just by writing as a technology, but by such different processes as the establishment of a Panhellenic version of an Attic myth and a Hellenistic city’s creation of a single celebratory history.

Preface VII
Notes on Contributors VIII
Introduction ...1
Ruth Scodel
Controlling the Web: Hypertextuality, the Iliad, and the Crimes of Previous Generations ...6
James O’Maley
Omens and Messages in the Iliad and Odyssey: A Study in Transmission ...29
Jonathan L. Ready
Prophetic Hesiod ...56
Ruth Scodel
Λάβε τὸ βυβλίον: Orality and Literacy in Aristophanes ...77
Carl Anderson and Keith Dix
Boreas and Oreithyia: A Case-Study in Multichannel Transmission of Myth ...87
Margalit Finkelberg
The Poet and the Painter: A Hymn to Zeus on a Cup by the Brygos Painter ...101
Jasper Gaunt
Story Time at the Library: Palaephatus and the Emergence of Highly Literate Mythology ...125
Greta Hawes
Orality in Philosophical Epistles ...148
Mathilde Cambron-Goulet
Look and Listen: History Performed and Inscribed ...175
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Spoken Prayers and Written Instructions in the Central Italian Cultural Koinê and Beyond ..197
Jay Fisher
Oral Textuality as a Language of Exclusive Communication in Terence’s Prologues ...218
Sophia Papaioannou
Simile Structure in Homeric Epic and Vergil’s Aeneid ..244
Deborah Beck
Poet, Audience, Time, and Text: Reflections on Medium and Mode in Homer and Virgil ...267
Elizabeth Minchin
Speaking Verse to Power: Circulation of Oral and Written Critique in the Lives of the Caesars ...289
Niall Slater
The Book of Revelation: A Written Text Towards the Oral Performance ...309
Lourdes García Ureña
The End of Orality: Transmission of Gospel Tradition in the Second and Third Centuries ..331
S.D. Charlesworth
Transmitting Legal Knowledge: From Question-and-Answer Format to Handbook in Gaius’Institutes ...356
Matthijs Wibier
Index of Ancient Texts ...375
General index ...383