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Despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. This is the first serious attempt to study the implications of this view. Dr Thomas stresses the coexistence of literacy and oral tradition in Greece and examines their character and interaction. Concentrating on the plentiful evidence from Classical Athens, she shows how the use of writing developed only gradually and under the influence of the previous oral communication. Drawing on anthropological discussion, the author isolates different types of Athenian oral tradition, building up a picture of Athens' traditions about its past and examining why they changed and disappeared. This study provides crucial insights into the methods and achievements of the Greek historians. It also has major implications for the interpretation of ancient literacy.

Greek language --- Language and culture --- Literacy --- Oral communication --- Oral tradition --- Writing --- Written communication --- Alphabétisation --- Communication écrite --- Social aspects --- History --- Histoire --- Athens (Greece) --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Written Greek --- 930.85:02 --- 316.773.3:02 --- -Language and culture --- -Literacy --- -Oral communication --- -Oral tradition --- -Writing --- -Written communication --- -Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Chirography --- Handwriting --- Ciphers --- Penmanship --- Tradition, Oral --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Classical languages --- Indo-European languages --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- Boek: communicatieinhoud--(communicatiesociologie) --- -Athens (Greece) --- -Civilization --- -Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- 316.773.3:02 Boek: communicatieinhoud--(communicatiesociologie) --- 930.85:02 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- Alphabétisation --- Communication écrite --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Civilization. --- History of civilization --- Classical Greek literature --- Antiquity --- Athens --- History. --- Arts and Humanities --- Greek language - Social aspects - Greece - Athens. --- Greek language - Written Greek - Greece - Athens. --- Language and culture - Greece - Athens. --- Oral communication - Greece - Athens. --- Oral tradition - Greece - Athens. --- Literacy - Greece - Athens. --- Writing - Greece - Athens.

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Greek 'local histories', better called polis and island histories, have usually been seen as the poor relation of mainstream 'great' Greek historiography, and yet they were demonstrably popular and extremely numerous from the late Classical period into the Hellenistic. The extensive fragments and testimonia were collected by Felix Jacoby and have been supplemented since with recent finds and inscriptions. Yet while the Athenian histories have received considerable attention, those of other cities have not: this is the first book to consider the polis and island histories as a whole, and as an important cultural and political phenomenon. It challenges the common label of 'antiquarianism' and argues that their role in helping to create 'imagined communities' must be seen partly as a response to fragile and changing status in a changing and expanding Greek world. Important themes are discussed alongside case studies of particular places (including Samos, Miletus, Erythrai, Megara, Athens).

Cities and towns, Ancient --- City-states --- Cities and towns --- Federal government --- Municipal government --- Political science --- State, The --- Geography, Ancient --- Historiography. --- History. --- Cities and towns, Ancient. --- City-states. --- Geschichtsschreibung. --- Insel. --- Polis. --- Historiography --- History --- Greece. --- Griechenland

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Classical Greek consistently uses epitedeumata to signify 'way of life' or even 'everyday habits', but always refers to practices that are deliberately pursued, not traditions and customs that are passively carried on. In this volume, an international group of leading academics undertake an examination of epitedeumata in Greek history, looking at cultural practices as acts which relate meaningfully to perceived sequences of past acts. In doing so, the contributors ask what kinds of attitudes the ancient Greeks had towards their past, and what behaviour such attitudes provoked. Each of the original contributions to this collection focuses on different kinds of epitedeumata as act patterns in the Greek world, incorporating religion and myth, political behaviour, sexuality, and historiography.

Rites and ceremonies --- Historiography --- History --- Greece --- Civilization

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History, Ancient. --- Greece --- History