Oral Performance And Its Context

ORALPERFORMANCEANDITSCONTEXT MNEMOSYNE BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA COLLEGERUNT H. PINKSTER ·H. S. VERSNEL D.M. SCHENKE VELD ·PH. SCHRijVERS S.R. SLINGS BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT H . PINKSTER, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, OUDE TURFI'viARKT 129, AMSTERDAM SUPPLEMENTUM DUCENTESI MUM Q UADRAGESI MUM OCTAVUM CJ. MAC KIE ORALPERFORMANCEANDITSCONTEXT ORAL PERFORMANCE AND ITS CONTEXT (ORALITY AND LITERACY IN ANCIENT GREECE, VOL. 5) EDITED BY CJ. MACKIE BRILL LEIDEN BOSTON 2004 · This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Oral performance and its context I edited by CJ. Mackie. p. cm.- (Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. ISSN 0169-8958; 248) Papers presented at the University of Melbourne conference in July 2002. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 90-04-13680-0 I. Oral communication-Greece-Congresses. 2. Written communication-Greece-Congresses.I. Mackie, C.J. II. Series. P92.G7507 2003 302.2'242'0938-dc22 2003065318 ISSN 0169-8958 ISBN 90 04 13680 0 © Copyright 2004 by Koninklyke Brill NV, Uiden, The Netherlands All rights reserved. No part if this publication mqy be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in arry form or ry arry means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permissionfrom the publisher. Authorization to photocopy itemsfor internal or personal use is granted ry Brill provided that the appropriatefees are paid direct{y to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 91 0 Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS CONTENTS Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vu 1x The Modesty of Homer RuTH S coDEL Rhythm and Regularity in Homeric Composition: Questions in the Ocfyssry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ELIZABETH MINCHIN Reperformance Scenarios for Pindar's Odes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 . BRuNo CuRRIE The Dissemination of Epinician Lyric: Pan-Hellenism, Reperformance, Written Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1 . THOMAS K. HuBBARD Memory, Time, and Writing: Oral and Literary Aspects of Thucydides' History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 jAMES V MoRRISON Orality and Aristotle's Aesthetics and Methods; Take #2 . . . . . . . . . . . 11 7 DANIEL F. MELIA Oral Performance in the Athenian Assembly and the Demosthenic Prooemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 . . IAN WORTHINGTON Demosthenes Actor on the Political and Forensic Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 45 CRAIG CooPER Staging Literacy in Plautus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NIALL w SLATER Oral and Written Forms of Closure in the Ancient Novel STEPHEN A.