Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens

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Hardcover | 8 May 1989

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Scholars are becoming increasingly aware that, despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many aspects an oral society. In the first major attempt to study the implications of this discovery, Dr. Thomas stresses the coexistence of literacy and oral tradition in Greece and examines their interaction. Concentrating on the plentiful evidence of Classical Athens, she shows how the use of writing developed only gradually and under the influence of the previous oral communications. Using insights from anthropology, the author isolates different types of Athenian oral tradition, constructing a picture of Athenian traditions and exploring why they changed and disappeared. Thomas researches not only the nature of individual traditions, but the mechanisms of oral tradition and memory in general; then the possible effect of writing on oral tradition. This study provides crucial insights into the methods and achievements of the Greek historians and therefore into the very material of Greek history.

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'Rosalind Thomas has given us a landmark book: sinewy, provocative, closely argued, widely ranging, selectively learned and discreetly imaginative.' Peter Parsons, London Review of Books

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History Language & Linguistics Language Learning & Teaching General & World History Earliest Times to Present Day Ancient History to the Year 500

Introduction
Literacy, written record and oral communication
Family tradition
Genealogy and family tradition: the intrusion of writing
Official tradition? Polis tradition and the epitaphios
The liberation of Athens and the 'Alcmaeonid tradition'
Epilogue
Appendix: early Greek lists
Chronological table
Bibliography
Index
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