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Sacred words : orality, literacy, and religion / edited by A.P.M.H. Lardinois, J.H. Blok, M.G.M. van der Poel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; ; 332.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 415 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004194120
  • 9004194126
  • 9789004214217
  • 9004214216
  • 1283161133
  • 9781283161138
  • 9786613161130
  • 6613161136
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sacred words.DDC classification:
  • 200.9182/20901 23
LOC classification:
  • BL785 .S23 2008eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Preface; Notes on Contributors; André Lardinois, Josine Blok and Marc van der Poel, Introduction; PART I. GREEK LITERATURE; 1. Elizabeth Minchin, The Words of Gods: Divine Discourse in Homer's Iliad; 2. Fiona Hobden, Enter the Divine: Sympotic Performance and Religious Experience; 3. Maria Pavlou, Past and Present in Pindar's Religious Poetry; 4. Ruth Scodel, Euripides, the Derveni Papyrus, and the Smoke of Many Writings; PART II. GREEK LAW; 5. Michael Gagarin, Writing Sacred Laws in Archaic and Classical Crete; 6. Sarah Hitch, Embedded Speech in the Attic Leges Sacrae
7. Evelyn van 't Wout, From Oath-Swearing to Entrenchment Clause: the Introduction of Atimia-Terminology in Legal Inscriptions8. Rosalind Thomas, 'And you, the Demos, Made an Uproar': Performance, Mass Audiences and Text in the Athenian Democracy; PART III. GREEK & ROMAN RELIGIOUS TEXTS; 9. Christopher Faraone, Hexametrical Incantations as Oral and Written Phenomena; 10. Franco Ferrari, Oral Bricolage and Ritual Context in the Golden Tablets; 11. Mark Alonge, Greek Hymns from Performance to Stone
12. Ana Rodriguez-Mayorgas, Annales Maximi: Writing, Memory, and Religious Performance in the Roman Republic13. Andromache Karanika, Homer the Prophet: Homeric Verses and Divination in the Homeromanteion; 14. Crystal Addey, Assuming the Mantle of the Gods: 'Unknowable Names' and Invocations in Late Antique Theurgic Ritual; PART IV. ROMAN LITERATURE; 15. Niall W. Slater, Plautus the Theologian; 16. Vanessa Berger, Orality in Livy's Representation of the Divine: The Construction of a Polyphonic Narrative; 17. Bé Breij, Dilemmas of Pietas in Roman Declamation; PART V. EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
18. Akio Ito, Paul the 'Herald' and the 'Teacher': Paul's Self-Images within an Oral Milieu19. James Morrison, Divine Voice, Literary Models, and Human Authority: Peter and Paul in the Early Christian Church; 20. Vincent Hunink, Singing together in Church: Augustine's Psalm against the Donatists; Index of Passages; Index of Subjects
Summary: A prevalent view in the current scholarship on ancient religions holds that state religion was primarily performed and transmitted in oral forms, whereas writing came to be associated with secret, private and marginal cults, especially in the Greek world. In Roman times, religions would have become more and more bookish, starting with the Sibylline books and the Annales Maximi of the Roman priests and culminating in the canonical gospels of the Christians. It is the aim of this volume to modify this view or, at least, to challenge it. Surveying the variety of ways in which different types of t.
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Preface; Notes on Contributors; André Lardinois, Josine Blok and Marc van der Poel, Introduction; PART I. GREEK LITERATURE; 1. Elizabeth Minchin, The Words of Gods: Divine Discourse in Homer's Iliad; 2. Fiona Hobden, Enter the Divine: Sympotic Performance and Religious Experience; 3. Maria Pavlou, Past and Present in Pindar's Religious Poetry; 4. Ruth Scodel, Euripides, the Derveni Papyrus, and the Smoke of Many Writings; PART II. GREEK LAW; 5. Michael Gagarin, Writing Sacred Laws in Archaic and Classical Crete; 6. Sarah Hitch, Embedded Speech in the Attic Leges Sacrae

7. Evelyn van 't Wout, From Oath-Swearing to Entrenchment Clause: the Introduction of Atimia-Terminology in Legal Inscriptions8. Rosalind Thomas, 'And you, the Demos, Made an Uproar': Performance, Mass Audiences and Text in the Athenian Democracy; PART III. GREEK & ROMAN RELIGIOUS TEXTS; 9. Christopher Faraone, Hexametrical Incantations as Oral and Written Phenomena; 10. Franco Ferrari, Oral Bricolage and Ritual Context in the Golden Tablets; 11. Mark Alonge, Greek Hymns from Performance to Stone

12. Ana Rodriguez-Mayorgas, Annales Maximi: Writing, Memory, and Religious Performance in the Roman Republic13. Andromache Karanika, Homer the Prophet: Homeric Verses and Divination in the Homeromanteion; 14. Crystal Addey, Assuming the Mantle of the Gods: 'Unknowable Names' and Invocations in Late Antique Theurgic Ritual; PART IV. ROMAN LITERATURE; 15. Niall W. Slater, Plautus the Theologian; 16. Vanessa Berger, Orality in Livy's Representation of the Divine: The Construction of a Polyphonic Narrative; 17. Bé Breij, Dilemmas of Pietas in Roman Declamation; PART V. EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE

18. Akio Ito, Paul the 'Herald' and the 'Teacher': Paul's Self-Images within an Oral Milieu19. James Morrison, Divine Voice, Literary Models, and Human Authority: Peter and Paul in the Early Christian Church; 20. Vincent Hunink, Singing together in Church: Augustine's Psalm against the Donatists; Index of Passages; Index of Subjects

A prevalent view in the current scholarship on ancient religions holds that state religion was primarily performed and transmitted in oral forms, whereas writing came to be associated with secret, private and marginal cults, especially in the Greek world. In Roman times, religions would have become more and more bookish, starting with the Sibylline books and the Annales Maximi of the Roman priests and culminating in the canonical gospels of the Christians. It is the aim of this volume to modify this view or, at least, to challenge it. Surveying the variety of ways in which different types of t.

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