Written Voices, Spoken Signs

Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text

Edited by Egbert J. Bakker

Edited by Ahuvia Kahane

    • Introduction Eghert Bakker and Ahuvia Kahane
    1. Storytelling in the Future: Truth, Time, and Tense in Homeric Epic Egbert Bakker
    2. Writing the Emperor's Clothes On: Literacy and the Production of Facts Franz H. Bauml
    3. Traditional Signs and Homeric Art John Miles Foley
    4. The Inland Ship: Problems in the Performance and Reception of Homeric Epic Andrew Ford
    5. Hexameter Progression and the Homeric Hero's Solitary State Ahuvia Kahane
    6. Similes and Performance Richard P. Martin
    7. Ellipsis in Homer Gregory Nagy
    8. Types of Orality in Text Wuif Oesterreicher
    9. The Medial Approach: A Paradigm Shift in the Philologies? Ursula Schaefer
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
    • Contributors
    • Index
  • Cover: Written Voices, Spoken Signs

Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University.

Ahuvia Kahane is Assistant Professor of Classics at Northwestern University.