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Repetition, Communication, and Meaning in the Ancient World
Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, vol. 13
Series: - Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 442
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This edited volume, arising from the 2019 conference âOrality and Literacy: Repetition,â 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 ârepetitionâ 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.
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. OâConnell, Raymond F. Person, Jr., Ruth Scodel, Niall W. Slater, Rodrigo Verano.
Contributors are: Justin Arft, Cassandra M. Donnelly, William Duffy, Alexander Forte, Xavier Gheerbrant, Hanna Golab, Françoise Létoublon, Elizabeth Minchin, Thomas J. Nelson, Peter A. OâConnell, Raymond F. Person, Jr., Ruth Scodel, Niall W. Slater, Rodrigo Verano.
''[T]he volume offers interesting and mind-broadening prompts. Homeric scholars will take advantage of the problematization of the category of ârepetitionâ in an oral context, especially in the opening papers, and will be pleased to re-encounter Homer at the end, re-discussed in the light of modern (and unusual) performances thanks to Duffyâs and Minchinâs contributions. Each paper is clearly structured and completed by copious and recent bibliography.'' Ombretta Cesca, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (06.2022)
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âDeborah Beck
1 Repetition or Recurrence? A Traditional Use for á¼Î½Î´ÏεÏÏι μελήÏει in Archaic Greek Poetry
âJustin Arft
2 Enumeration and Embodiment in Homeric Repetition
âAlexander Forte
3 Odysseusâ Scar Once More: Repetition, Tradition and Fiction in the Story of Odysseusâ Hunting in the Mountains of Parnassus
âFrançoise Létoublon
4 Repetition, Sortition, and Abbreviations in the Cypro-Minoan Script
âCassandra M. Donnelly
5 Repeating the Unrepeated: Allusions to Homeric Hapax Legomena in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry
âThomas J. Nelson
6 Repetition and the Creation of âSapphoâ
âPeter A. OâConnell
7 Repetition, Disanalogy, and Reflexivity in Hesiodâs Theogony: About the Fate of the Cyclopes, of the Hundred-Handers, and of the Children of Iapetus
âXavier Gheerbrant
8 Reperformance, Writing, and the Boundaries of Literature
âRuth Scodel
9 Other-Initiated Repetition and Fictive Orality in the Dialogues of Plato
âRodrigo Verano
10 Repetition, Improvisation, and Parody: Eumolpus Re-takes Troy in Petroniusâs Satyrica 83â90
âNiall W. Slater
11 Oral Prayer Patterns in Epigraphic Songs to Asklepios
âHanna Golab
12 Harmonization in the Pentateuch and Synoptic Gospels: Repetition and Category-Triggering within Scribal Memory
âRaymond F. Person, Jr.
13 âGodlikeâ Grappling: Professional Wrestling as a Model for the Shifting of Epithet Significance in Oral Poetry
âWilliam Duffy
14 The Creation of a Storyrealm: The Role of Repetition in Homeric Epic and Alice Oswaldâs Memorial
âElizabeth Minchin
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âDeborah Beck
1 Repetition or Recurrence? A Traditional Use for á¼Î½Î´ÏεÏÏι μελήÏει in Archaic Greek Poetry
âJustin Arft
2 Enumeration and Embodiment in Homeric Repetition
âAlexander Forte
3 Odysseusâ Scar Once More: Repetition, Tradition and Fiction in the Story of Odysseusâ Hunting in the Mountains of Parnassus
âFrançoise Létoublon
4 Repetition, Sortition, and Abbreviations in the Cypro-Minoan Script
âCassandra M. Donnelly
5 Repeating the Unrepeated: Allusions to Homeric Hapax Legomena in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry
âThomas J. Nelson
6 Repetition and the Creation of âSapphoâ
âPeter A. OâConnell
7 Repetition, Disanalogy, and Reflexivity in Hesiodâs Theogony: About the Fate of the Cyclopes, of the Hundred-Handers, and of the Children of Iapetus
âXavier Gheerbrant
8 Reperformance, Writing, and the Boundaries of Literature
âRuth Scodel
9 Other-Initiated Repetition and Fictive Orality in the Dialogues of Plato
âRodrigo Verano
10 Repetition, Improvisation, and Parody: Eumolpus Re-takes Troy in Petroniusâs Satyrica 83â90
âNiall W. Slater
11 Oral Prayer Patterns in Epigraphic Songs to Asklepios
âHanna Golab
12 Harmonization in the Pentateuch and Synoptic Gospels: Repetition and Category-Triggering within Scribal Memory
âRaymond F. Person, Jr.
13 âGodlikeâ Grappling: Professional Wrestling as a Model for the Shifting of Epithet Significance in Oral Poetry
âWilliam Duffy
14 The Creation of a Storyrealm: The Role of Repetition in Homeric Epic and Alice Oswaldâs Memorial
âElizabeth Minchin
Index
Specialists in both the relevant subject areas and in related areas (Classical literature, Greek philosophy, ancient Greek religion, Biblical studies, reception studies); students in the relevant subject areas.