Craig Cooper (ed.) - Politics of Orality


Am adunat in e-biblioteca mea cateva volume din seria Mnemosyne. Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum. In afara faptului ca volumele aparute sub aceasta sigla sunt de o calitate excelenta, sunt si foarte scumpe. De aceea nu prea pot fi vazute in colectii particulare, ci mai mult in biblioteci - si mai ales in Occident.

Politics of Orality este volumul 6 dintr-o excelenta serie intitulata Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece.

  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • The Language of Heroes and the Language of Heroines: storytelling in oral traditional epic
  • “Summoning Together all the People”: variant tellings of the Mwindo Epic as social and political deliberation
  • Orality and Textual Criticism: the Homeric Hymns
  • Orality and the Politics of Scholarship
  • Written Lists of Military Personnel in Classical Athens
  • Why the Athenians forgot Cleisthenes: literacy and the politics of remembrance in ancient Athens
  • Lycurgus and the State Text of Tragedy
  • Myth and Writing in Aeschines’ Against Timarchus
  • Orality and the Politics of Roman Peacemaking
  • Theognis’ Sphrêgis: Aristocratic Speech and the Paradoxes of Writing
  • Thucydides’ History Live: reception and politics
  • From Orality to Literacy: The Moral Education of the Elite in Fourth-Century Athens
  • Writing Divine Speech: Greek transliterations of Near Eastern languages in the Hellenistic East
  • Fighting the Future: Euripidean letters and Thucydides’ Athens
  • Elitist Orality and the Triviality of Writing
  • Neronian Oral Politics: the case of Musonius Rufus
  • Oral “Agreement”, Written Contract, and the Bonds of Law at Athens
  • Did the Athenian Courts Attempt to Achieve Consistency? Oral tradition and written records in the Athenian administration of justice
  • Select Index
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Kate Gilliver - Caesar’s Gallic Wars




Kate Gilliver - Caesar's Gallic Wars 58-50 BC (Routledge Essential Histories), 2003.
  • Introduction
  • Chronology
  • Background to war. Building an empire
  • Warring sides. Discipline vs. spectacle
  • Outbreak. The migration of the Helvetii
  • The fighting. Invasion, siege and conquest
  • Portrait of a soldier. Caesar’s centurions
  • The world around war. The impact of the conflict
  • Portrait of a civilian. Roman merchants
  • How the war ended. Roman triumphs
  • Conclusion and consequences. Pax Romana
  • Further reading
  • Index
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