Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion
Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, vol. 8
- Editors André Lardinois; Josine Blok; M.G.M. Poel
- Subjects: Classical Studies
- Publication Year : 2011
- DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004194120.i-415
- E - ISBN : 9789004214217
- Imprint: Brill
- Collections: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011
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Surveying the variety of ways in which written texts and oral discourse were involved in ancient religions, the contributions to this volume show that oral and written forms were intricately connected in both Greek and Roman state and private religions.
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Preliminary Material
- pp. i–xiv
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Introduction
- pp. 1–14 (14)
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The Words Of Gods: Divine Discourse In Homer’s Iliad
- pp. 15–36 (22)
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Enter The Divine: Sympotic Performance And Religious Experience
- pp. 37–58 (22)
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Past And Present In Pindar’s Religious Poetry
- pp. 59–78 (20)
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Euripides, The Derveni Papyrus, And The Smoke Of Many Writings
- pp. 79–98 (20)
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Writing Sacred Laws In Archaic And Classical Crete
- pp. 99–112 (14)
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Embedded Speech In The Attic Leges Sacrae
- pp. 113–142 (30)
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From Oath-Swearing To Entrenchment Clause: The Introduction Of Atimia-Terminology In Legal Inscriptions
- pp. 143–160 (18)
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‘And You, The Demos, Made An Uproar’: Performance, Mass Audiences And Text In The Athenian Democracy
- pp. 161–188 (28)
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Hexametrical Incantations As Oral And Written Phenomena
- pp. 189–204 (16)
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Oral Bricolage And Ritual Context In The Golden Tablets
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Greek Hymns From Performance To Stone
- pp. 217–234 (18)
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Annales Maximi: Writing, Memory, And Religious Performance In The Roman Republic
- pp. 235–254 (20)
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Homer The Prophet: Homeric Verses And Divination In The Homeromanteion
- pp. 255–278 (24)
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Assuming The Mantle Of The Gods: ‘Unknowable Names’ And Invocations In Late Antique Theurgic Ritual
- pp. 279–294 (16)
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Plautus The Theologian
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Orality In Livy’s Representation Of The Divine: The Construction Of A Polyphonic Narrative
- pp. 311–328 (18)
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Dilemmas Of Pietas In Roman Declamation
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Paul The ‘Herald’ And The ‘Teacher’: Paul’s Self-Images Within An Oral Milieu
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Divine Voice, Literary Models, And Human Authority: Peter And Paul In The Early Christian Church
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Singing Together In Church: Augustine’s Psalm Against The Donatists
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Index Of Passages
- pp. 405–412 (8)
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Index Of Subjects
- pp. 413–415 (3)
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