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This book explores the role of written and oral communication in Greece and is the first systematic and sustained treatment at this level. It examines the recent theoretical debates about literacy and orality and explores the uses of writing and oral communication, and their interaction, in ancient Greece. It is concerned to set the significance of written and oral communication as much as possible in their social and historical context, and to stress the specifically Greek characteristics in their use, arguing that the functions of literacy and orality are often fluid and culturally determined. It draws together the results of recent studies and suggests further avenues of enquiry. Individual chapters deal with (among other things) the role of writing in archaic Greece, oral poetry, the visual and monumental impact of writing, the performance and oral transmission even of written texts, and the use of writing by the city-states; there is an epilogue on Rome. All ancient evidence is translated.

Greek language --- Language and culture --- Literacy --- Oral communication --- Oral tradition --- Writing --- Written communication --- Grec (Langue) --- Langage et culture --- Alphabétisation --- Communication orale --- Tradition orale --- Ecriture --- Communication écrite --- Social aspects --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Greece --- 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) --- -Greece --- Civilization. --- Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek --- -Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek. --- 316.773.3:02 Boek: communicatieinhoud--(communicatiesociologie) --- 930.85:02 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- -Culture and language --- Written discourse --- Alphabétisation --- Communication écrite --- Grèce --- Greek language - Social aspects - Greece. --- Written communication - Greece - History. --- Oral communication - Greece - History. --- Oral tradition - Greece - History. --- Language and culture - Greece. --- Literacy - Greece - History. --- Writing - Greece - History. --- Greece - Civilization. --- History. --- Arts and Humanities --- Greek language - Written Greek - Greece. --- Oral communication - Greece. --- Oral tradition - Greece. --- Literacy - Greece. --- Writing - Greece.

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This volume deals with orality and literacy in ancient Greece and what consideration of these areas yields for that society, its literature, traditions and practices. Individual chapters focus on art, comedy, historiography, oratory, religion, rhetoric, philosophy, poetry, tragedy, and on orality in contemporary cultures (Greek and South African), which have a bearing on the ancient world. By considering such factors as oral elements in various genres and practices and how these have shaped the texts we have today, as well as the extent of literacy and the impact of literacy on oral traditions and on singers/writers, the book presents another insight into ancient Greek society and its people.

Classical Greek literature --- History of civilization --- Thematology --- Mass communications --- Antiquity --- Greece --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Manuscrits--Transmission --- Tekstoverlevering --- Textual transmission --- Transmission de textes --- Transmission des manuscrits --- Transmission des textes --- Transmission littéraire --- Transmission of texts --- Greek literature --- Written communication --- Language and culture --- Oral communication --- Oral tradition --- Literacy --- Littérature grecque --- Communication écrite --- Langage et culture --- Communication orale --- Tradition orale --- Alphabétisation --- Criticism, Textual. --- History --- Critique textuelle --- Histoire --- Writing --- -Language and culture --- -Transmission of texts --- -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 --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Civilization. --- -Criticism, Textual --- Littérature grecque --- Communication écrite --- Alphabétisation --- Written discourse --- Criticism [Textual ] --- Civilization --- Greek literature. --- Language and culture. --- Literacy. --- Oral communication. --- Oral tradition. --- Transmission of texts. --- Writing. --- Written communication. --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Greece. --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Greek literature - Criticism, Textual. --- Transmission of texts - Greece. --- Written communication - Greece. --- Language and culture - Greece. --- Oral communication - Greece. --- Oral tradition - Greece. --- Literacy - Greece. --- Writing - Greece.