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Informationen zum Autor André P.M.H. Lardinois (Princeton Ph.D. 1995) is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. His main interests center on Greek lyric poetry and Greek drama. Josine H. Blok is Professor of Ancient History and Classical Culture at Utrecht University and has published widely on the cultural, political and social history of archaic and classical Greece and nineteenth-century classical scholarship. Marc van der Poel is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published on various aspects of the history of rhetoric from antiquity to the Renaissance, and on Latin literature, especially in the Renaissance. Contributors: Crystal Addey, Mark Alonge, Vanessa Berger, Josine Blok, Bé Breij, Christopher Faraone, Franco Ferrari, Michael Gagarin, Sarah Hitch, Fiona Hobden, Vincent Hunink, Akio Ito, Andromache Karanika, André Lardinois, Elizabeth Minchin, James Morrison, Maria Pavlou, Marc van der Poel, Ana Rodriguez-Mayorgas, Ruth Scodel, Niall W. Slater, Roslaind Thomas and Evelyn van 't Wout. Klappentext Surveying the variety of ways in which written texts and oral discourse were involved in ancient religions, the contributions to this volume show that oral and written forms were intricately connected in both Greek and Roman state and private religions. Part I: GREEK LITERATURE; 1. The Words of Gods: Divine Discourse in Homer's Iliad; Elizabeth Minchin; 2. Enter the Divine: Sympotic Performance and Religious Experience; Fiona Hobden; 3. Past and Present in Pindar's Religious Poetry; Maria Pavlou; 4. Euripides, the Derveni Papyrus, and the Smoke of Many Writings; Ruth Scodel; Part II: GREEK LAW; 5. Writing Sacred Laws in Archaic and Classical Crete; Michael Gagarin; 6. Embedded Speech in the Attic Leges Sacrae; Sarah Hitch; 7. From Oath-swearing to Entrenchment Clause: the Introduction of atimia Terminology in Legal Inscriptions; Evelyn van 't Wout; 8. 'And you, the demos, made an uproar': Performance, Mass Audiences and Text in the Athenian Democracy; Rosalind Thomas; Part III: GREEK AND ROMAN RELIGIOUS TEXTS; 9. Hexametrical Incantations as Oral and Written Phenomena; Christopher Faraone; 10. Oral Bricolage and Ritual Context in the Golden Tablets; Franco Ferrari; 11. Greek Hymns from Performance to Stone; Mark Alonge; 12. Annales Maximi: Writing, Memory, and Religious Performance in the Roman Republic; Ana Rodriguez-Mayorgas; 13. Homer the Prophet: Homeric Verses and Divination in the Homeromanteion; Andromache Karanika; 14. Assuming the Mantle of the Gods: 'Unknowable Names,' Hieratic Formulae and Invocations in Late Antique Theurgic Ritual; Crystal Addey; Part IV: ROMAN LITERATURE; 15. Plautus the Theologian; Niall W. Slater; 16. Orality in Livy's Representation of the Divine: The Construction of a Polyphonic Narrative; Vanessa Berger; 17. Dilemmas of Pietas in Roman Declamation; Be Breij; Part V: EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE; 18. Paul the 'Herald' and the 'Teacher': Paul's Self-Images within an Oral Milieu; Akio Ito; 19. Divine Voice, Literary Models, and Human Authority: Peter and Paul in the Early Christian Church; James Morrison; 20. Singing together in Church: Augustine's Psalm against the Donatists; Vincent Hunink ...