Rethinking Orality III - From Homer to Neuroscience

This volume offers innovative perspectives that reassess and update so-called Oral Theory, bridging classical scholarship with cutting-edge theoretical contributions, and host a dialogue with cognitive sciences (linguistics and neuroscience), anthropology, and complexity theory. The book propounds theoretical perspectives alongside case-studies ranging from Homer and Athenian literacy to Roman law.

Product details

• Assisted by: Maurizio Bettini (Editor), Manuela Giordano (Editor), Riccardo Palmisciano (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.06.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9783111431611
• ISBN: 978-3-11-143161-1
• No. of pages: 270
• Illustrations: 20 b/w ill., 5 b/w tbl.
• Series: Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Kognitionswissenschaft, Homer, Cultural Studies, Classical texts, Mündlichkeit, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Antike griechische und römische Literatur, SOC000000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Cognitive studies, LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Orality, transcodification, Transkodierung