Oral Performance and Its Context

This volume is concerned with the way that the spoken word and the written word co-exist and interact in antiquity. Papers deal with different genres from antiquity, from the period of early Greek antiquity through to the Roman world.

About the author

C.J. Mackie, Ph.D. (1984), University of Glasgow, is Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Melbourne. He has published a book on Vergil's Aeneid ('Characterisation of Aeneas', Edinburgh, 1988) and numerous articles on early Greek epic poetry and myth.

Product details

• Assisted by: Chris Mackie (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2003
• EAN: 9789004136809
• ISBN: 978-90-04-13680-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 243 mm x 164 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 535 g
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity