Repetition, Communication, and Meaning in the Ancient World

Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, Vol. 13
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46662-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 442, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 811 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

This edited volume, arising from the 2019 conference “Orality and Literacy: Repetition,” explores some of the many forms and uses of repetition, in poetry, philosophy, and inscriptions, from Homeric epic through the Latin novel and the Gospels to reception in the twentieth century. All human communication depends on repeating signs that are comprehensible to the speaker and the addressee. Yet “repetition” takes many specific forms, in different performance contexts, time periods, and literary genres. Repetition may operate within one utterance, or across several times, places, and artists. The relationship between two repeated utterances cannot always be determined with certainty. But repetition offers exciting ways to understand the communicative process in oral and literate contexts across the ancient world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Beck, Deborah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Deborah Beck

1 Repetition or Recurrence? A Traditional Use for ??d?ess? µe??se? in Archaic Greek Poetry

Justin Arft

2 Enumeration and Embodiment in Homeric Repetition

Alexander Forte

3 Odysseus’ Scar Once More: Repetition, Tradition and Fiction in the Story of Odysseus’ Hunting in the Mountains of Parnassus

Françoise Létoublon

4 Repetition, Sortition, and Abbreviations in the Cypro-Minoan Script

Cassandra M. Donnelly

5 Repeating the Unrepeated: Allusions to Homeric Hapax Legomena in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry

Thomas J. Nelson

6 Repetition and the Creation of “Sappho”

Peter A. O’Connell

7 Repetition, Disanalogy, and Reflexivity in Hesiod’s Theogony: About the Fate of the Cyclopes, of the Hundred-Handers, and of the Children of Iapetus

Xavier Gheerbrant

8 Reperformance, Writing, and the Boundaries of Literature

Ruth Scodel

9 Other-Initiated Repetition and Fictive Orality in the Dialogues of Plato

Rodrigo Verano

10 Repetition, Improvisation, and Parody: Eumolpus Re-takes Troy in Petronius’s Satyrica 83–90

Niall W. Slater

11 Oral Prayer Patterns in Epigraphic Songs to Asklepios

Hanna Golab

12 Harmonization in the Pentateuch and Synoptic Gospels: Repetition and Category-Triggering within Scribal Memory

Raymond F. Person, Jr.

13 “Godlike” Grappling: Professional Wrestling as a Model for the Shifting of Epithet Significance in Oral Poetry

William Duffy

14 The Creation of a Storyrealm: The Role of Repetition in Homeric Epic and Alice Oswald’s Memorial

Elizabeth Minchin

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Deborah Beck is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1997. Her most recent book is Speech Presentation in Homeric Epic (2012).

Contributors are: Justin Arft, Cassandra M. Donnelly, William Duffy, Alexander Forte, Xavier Gheerbrant, Hanna Golab, Françoise Létoublon, Elizabeth Minchin, Thomas J. Nelson, Peter A. O’Connell, Raymond F. Person, Jr., Ruth Scodel, Niall W. Slater, Rodrigo Verano.