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Voice and Voices in Antiquity

Voice and Voices in Antiquity

Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, Vol. 11

by Niall Slater
Hardback
Publication Date: 27/10/2016

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Voice and Voices in Antiquity draws together 18 studies of the changing concept of voice and voices in the oral traditions and subsequent literate genres of the ancient world. Ranging from the poet's voice to those of characters as well as historically embodied communities, and from the interface between the Greek and Near Eastern worlds to the western reaches of the Roman Empire, the scholars assembled here offer a methodologically rich and diverse series of approaches to locating the power of voice as both poetic construct and communal memory. The results not only enrich our understanding of the strategies of epic, lyric, and dramatic voices but also illuminate the rhetorical claims given voice by historians, orators, philosophers, and novelists in the ancient world.
ISBN:
9789004327306
9789004327306
Category:
Literary studies: classical
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
27-10-2016
Language:
English, Hebrew, Greek, ancient (to 1453)
Publisher:
Brill
Country of origin:
Netherlands
Dimensions (mm):
235x155mm
Weight:
0.82kg

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