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 Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, vol. 8

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xiv)   (129K)
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    • Contents
    • Preface
    • Notes On Contributors
  • Introduction (1-14) by André Lardinois, Josine Blok and Marc Van Der Poel   (122K)
  • The Words Of Gods: Divine Discourse In Homer’s Iliad (15-36) by Elizabeth Minchin   (185K)
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    • Hera And Aphrodite
    • Zeus, Hera And Poseidon
    • Discussion
    • Bibliography
  • Enter The Divine: Sympotic Performance And Religious Experience (37-58) by Fiona Hobden   (196K)
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    • Divining The Symposion
    • Dionysian Dramatics
    • Reading Religious Experience
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Past And Present In Pindar’s Religious Poetry (59-78) by Maria Pavlou   (202K)
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    • Cult Songs
    • Epinicians
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Euripides, The Derveni Papyrus, And The Smoke Of Many Writings (79-98) by Ruth Scodel   (181K)
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    • Elitism, Philosophy, Religion, And Books In Euripides
    • Books, Intellectual Property, And Secret Ideas In The Late Fifth Century
    • Conclusions
    • Bibliography
  • Writing Sacred Laws In Archaic And Classical Crete (99-112) by Michael Gagarin   (127K)
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    • Bibliography
  • Embedded Speech In The Attic Leges Sacrae (113-142) by Sarah Hitch   (256K)
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    • Embedded Speech Acts In The Attic Leges Sacrae
    • Athenian Priests And Oral Traditions
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • From Oath-Swearing To Entrenchment Clause: The Introduction Of Atimia-Terminology In Legal Inscriptions (143-160) by Evelyn ’T Van Wout   (196K)
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    • Laying Down The Rules
    • Coercing Compliance
    • Ἄτιμός Εὶμι As A Conflict Strategy
    • Authority Versus Discontent
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • ‘And You, The Demos, Made An Uproar’: Performance, Mass Audiences And Text In The Athenian Democracy (161-188) by Rosalind Thomas   (233K)
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    • Participatory Or Documentary Democracy? Texts And Method
    • Mass Audiences, Mass Psychology And The Assembly
    • Noisy Audiences, Thorubos And The Demos
    • Rhetorical Reactions And Implications
    • Conclusion
    • Select Bibliography
  • Hexametrical Incantations As Oral And Written Phenomena (189-204) by Christopher Faraone   (282K)
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    • Bibliography
  • Oral Bricolage And Ritual Context In The Golden Tablets (205-216) by Franco Ferrari   (133K)
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    • Oral Bricolage
    • Ritual Contexts
    • Bibliography
  • Greek Hymns From Performance To Stone (217-234) by Mark Alonge   (189K)
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    • Inscribed Hymns
    • The Palaikastro Hymn
    • Why Inscribe A Hymn?
    • Explaining The Palaikastro Inscription
    • Bibliography
  • Annales Maximi: Writing, Memory, And Religious Performance In The Roman Republic (235-254) by Ana Rodriguez-Mayorgas   (173K)
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    • Making Information Public?
    • Prodigies And Expiations
    • Priesthood,Writing And Ritual
    • Bibliography
  • Homer The Prophet: Homeric Verses And Divination In The Homeromanteion (255-278) by Andromache Karanika   (210K)
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    • Homer And Divination
    • Homer In The Magical Papyri
    • Homeromanteion, Homer And Early Byzantine Centos
    • Conclusion: Poetics And Semiotics Of The Homeromanteion
    • Bibliography
  • Assuming The Mantle Of The Gods: ‘Unknowable Names’ And Invocations In Late Antique Theurgic Ritual (279-294) by Crystal Addey   (164K)
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    • The ‘Unknowable Names’: Secret Names Of The Gods
    • Debating Categories Of Language: Natural, Conventional Or Divine?
    • Ritual Invocations: Compulsive, Mechanical Commands Or Pious Displays Of Divine Power?
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Plautus The Theologian (295-310) by Niall W. Slater   (140K)
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    • Religio
    • Virtute Deum
    • Would-Be Gods
    • Rudens
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Orality In Livy’s Representation Of The Divine: The Construction Of A Polyphonic Narrative (311-328) by Vanessa Berger   (146K)
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    • The Use Of Oral Sources
    • The Characters’ Speeches
    • The Audience’s Voice
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
    • Appendix: Words Referring To An Allegedly Oral Tradition
  • Dilemmas Of Pietas In Roman Declamation (329-348) by Bé Breij   (192K)
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    • Declamation
    • Pietas
    • Pietas In Roman Rhetoric
    • Pietas In Roman Declamation
    • Bibliography
  • Paul The ‘Herald’ And The ‘Teacher’: Paul’s Self-Images Within An Oral Milieu (349-370) by Akio Ito   (187K)
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    • Paul The ‘Herald’
    • Paul The ‘Teacher’
    • Conclusion: ‘Herald’ And ‘Teacher’
    • Bibliography
  • Divine Voice, Literary Models, And Human Authority: Peter And Paul In The Early Christian Church (371-388) by James Morrison   (172K)
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    • Luke And The Book Of Acts
    • Peter, Illiterate And Uneducated
    • The Pharisee Paul
    • New Testament Encounters
    • The Hebrew Prophets
    • Luke’s References To Greek Literature
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Singing Together In Church: Augustine’s Psalm Against The Donatists (389-404) by Vincent Hunink   (148K)
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    • Unclassical Text
    • Simple Or Refined?
    • A Carmen After All?
    • Psalm
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Index Of Passages (405-412)   (63K)
  • Index Of Subjects (413-415)   (54K)