Voice and Voices in Antiquity

Niall W. Slater, Ph.D. (1981), Princeton, is Dobbs Professor of Latin & Greek at Emory University. Previous books include Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes (2002), Reading Petronius (1990), and Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind (1985; 2000 (2nd, rev. ed)).Contributors are: Geoffrey Bakewell, Deborah Beck, Anton Bierl, Aubrey Buster, Ombretta Cesca, John "Jay" Fisher, Margaret Foster, Jasper Gaunt, Naomi Kaloudis, Joanna Kenty, Athena Kirk, Amy Koenig, Claas Lattmann, Elizabeth Minchin, Raymond F. Person, Jr., Ruth Scodel, Tazuko van Berkel, and Andreas Willi.

"Niall Slater’s edited volume Voice and Voices in Antiquity considers the simultaneously present and absent sonority of the voices of antiquity, and it probes the relationship between orality, vocality, and text. The book emerges during a vibrant moment for voice studies in Classics, and functions as the eleventh installment in the thriving biennial conference series “Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World,” whose first volume/conference tackled the theme “Voice into Text.” Each of the chapters in this volume contains nuanced and sophisticated readings in a wide range of genres, periods, and cultural traditions.(...) Slater’s overview of the individual essays reveals a deep consideration of the multifaceted ways in which this theme can be explored, and his introduction reveals how the individual papers speak to one another across languages, genres, eras, and methodologies." Hannah Silverblank, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2017.07.30. "The theme of this volume, 'voice and voices', offers a particularly fruitful opportunity to explore the significance of 'voice' as it crosses the boundaries between oral and literate cultures. (...) Overall, this is an excellent volume that makes several important contributions to our understanding of voice in Greek literature. There is much here to explore, and it is well worth the exploring."Juliette Harrisson in Pacific Coast Philology 53.1, 2018

• ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionNiall W. Slaterpart 1 - Epic Voices2 Voice and Voices: Homer and the Stewardship of MemoryElizabeth Minchin3 Which Limits for Speech Reporting? Messenger Scenes and Control of Repetition in the IliadOmbretta Cesca4 The Voice of the Seer in the Iliad and the OdysseyDeborah Beck5 The Individual Voice in Works and DaysRuth Scodel6 Nestor’s Cup and Its ReceptionJasper Gauntpart 2 - Lyric and Dramatic Voices7 Pindar’s Voice(s): The Epinician Persona ReconsideredClaas Lattmann8 Poeta Loquens: Poetic Voices in Pindar’s Paean 6 and Horace’s Odes 4.6Margaret Foster9 Melizein Pathe or the Tonal Dimension in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: Voice, Song, and Choreia as Leitmotifs and Metatragic Signals for Expressing SufferingAnton Bierl10 Daphnis’ Folksong: The Euphonist’s Effect on the Creation of a Textual PerformanceNaomi Kaloudispart 3 - From Singing to Narrative Voice11 Towards a Grammar of Narrative Voice: From Homeric Pragmatics to Hellenistic StylisticsAndreas Willi12 The Voice of Aeschylus in Plato’s RepublicGeoffrey W. Bakewell13 Character in Narrative Depictions of Composing Oral Epics and Reading HistoriographiesRaymond F. Person, Jr. part 4 - Voices of Prose14 Written Record and Membership in Persian Period Judah and Classical AthensAubrey E. Buster15 Voiced Mathematics: Orality and NumeracyTazuko Angela van Berkel16 Cicero’s Representation of an Oral Community in De OratoreJoanna Kenty17 Becoming Gallic: Orality, Voice and Identity in Roman GaulJay Fisher18 λόγος and φωνή in Odyssey 10 and Plutarch’s GryllusAthena Kirk19 The Fragrance of the Rose: An Image of the Voice in Achilles TatiusAmy KoenigIndex