Orality and Narration. Performance and Mythic-Ritual Poetics in the Ancient World

Anton Bierl, Ph.D. (Munich, 1990), Habil. (Leipzig, 1999), is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Basel. He was Senior Fellow at Harvard’s CHS (2005-2011). He is director of Homer’s Iliad: The Basel Commentary and series-editor of MythosEikonPoiesis. His research interests include Homeric epic, drama, song and performance culture, the ancient novel, Greek myth and religion.David Bouvier, Ph.D. (EHESS, 1984; University of Geneva, 1997), is Professor emeritus of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Lausanne. He has extensively published on Homeric poetry, Greek literature, and reception studies. He leads the digital project Iliadoscope.Ombretta Cesca, Ph.D. (University of Lausanne, 2018) is Assistant Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Lausanne. Her research interests include Homeric poetry, media and communication in Ancient Greece, and the representation of gods in epic poems and Attic theater. Her scientific approach combines oral theory, narratology and history of ancient religions.Contributors are: Dylan Bovet, Sandra Fleury, Jasper Gaunt, Claas Lattmann, Anna Lefteratou, Elizabeth Minchin, Gregory Nagy, Raymond F. Person, Jr., Ruth Scodel, Niall W. Slater.

• PrefaceContributorsIntroductionAnton Bierl, David Bouvier and Ombretta CescaPart 1 Orality, Narration, and Performance in Poetry and ImagesMemories Become Story: On the Poetics of Persuasion in Homer’s IliadElizabeth MinchinSong 44 of Sappho as Shaped by Oral TraditionsGregory Nagy“Modified Rapture!” In and Out of Orality in Staging ComedyNiall W. SlaterBetween Symposium, Stage, and Papyrus: The Story of Kirke in Archaic Greek ArtJasper GauntPart 2 Performance, Mythic-Ritual Poetics, and WritingWriting the Unspeakable: How Did the Greeks Write about the Eleusinian Mysteries?Sandra FleuryBetween Athens and Delphi: The Performance and Poetics of the Delphic HymnsClaas LattmannEpitaph and RitualRuth ScodelThe Text, the Reader, and the Voice: Roman Mores in Verse EpitaphsDylan BovetPart 3 Performance and Mythic-Ritual Poetics in Christian TextsMultimodality and Metonymy: Deuteronomy as a Test CaseRaymond F. Person Jr.Jesus’ Baptism in the Scamander: Homeric Intertextuality and Christian Ritual in Eudocia’s Homeric CentosAnna LefteratouIndex LocorumIndex of Subjects