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Author:   Anton Bierl ,  David Bouvier ,  Ombretta Cesca
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   495
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9789004736900

ISBN 10:   9004736905
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   04 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Contributors Introduction  Anton Bierl, David Bouvier and Ombretta Cesca Part 1 Orality, Narration, and Performance in Poetry and Images Memories Become Story: On the Poetics of Persuasion in Homer’s Iliad  Elizabeth Minchin Song 44 of Sappho as Shaped by Oral Traditions  Gregory Nagy “Modified Rapture!” In and Out of Orality in Staging Comedy  Niall W. Slater Between Symposium, Stage, and Papyrus: The Story of Kirke in Archaic Greek Art  Jasper Gaunt Part 2 Performance, Mythic-Ritual Poetics, and Writing Writing the Unspeakable: How Did the Greeks Write about the Eleusinian Mysteries?  Sandra Fleury Between Athens and Delphi: The Performance and Poetics of the Delphic Hymns  Claas Lattmann Epitaph and Ritual  Ruth Scodel The Text, the Reader, and the Voice: Roman Mores in Verse Epitaphs  Dylan Bovet Part 3 Performance and Mythic-Ritual Poetics in Christian Texts Multimodality and Metonymy: Deuteronomy as a Test Case  Raymond F. Person Jr. Jesus’ Baptism in the Scamander: Homeric Intertextuality and Christian Ritual in Eudocia’s Homeric Centos  Anna Lefteratou Index Locorum Index of Subjects

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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.

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