Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion

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.

• Part I: GREEK LITERATURE1. The Words of Gods: Divine Discourse in Homer's IliadElizabeth Minchin2. Enter the Divine: Sympotic Performance and Religious ExperienceFiona Hobden3. Past and Present in Pindar’s Religious PoetryMaria Pavlou4. Euripides, the Derveni Papyrus, and the Smoke of Many WritingsRuth ScodelPart II: GREEK LAW5. Writing Sacred Laws in Archaic and Classical CreteMichael Gagarin6. Embedded Speech in the Attic Leges SacraeSarah Hitch7. From Oath-swearing to Entrenchment Clause: the Introduction of atimia Terminology in Legal InscriptionsEvelyn van ’t Wout8. ‘And you, the demos, made an uproar’: Performance, Mass Audiences and Text in the Athenian DemocracyRosalind ThomasPart III: GREEK AND ROMAN RELIGIOUS TEXTS9. Hexametrical Incantations as Oral and Written PhenomenaChristopher Faraone10. Oral Bricolage and Ritual Context in the Golden TabletsFranco Ferrari11. Greek Hymns from Performance to StoneMark Alonge12. Annales Maximi: Writing, Memory, and Religious Performance in the Roman RepublicAna Rodriguez-Mayorgas13. Homer the Prophet: Homeric Verses and Divination in the HomeromanteionAndromache Karanika14. Assuming the Mantle of the Gods: ‘Unknowable Names,’ Hieratic Formulae and Invocations in Late Antique Theurgic RitualCrystal AddeyPart IV: ROMAN LITERATURE15. Plautus the TheologianNiall W. Slater16. Orality in Livy’s Representation of the Divine: The Construction of a Polyphonic NarrativeVanessa Berger17. Dilemmas of Pietas in Roman DeclamationBé BreijPart V: EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE18. Paul the ‘Herald’ and the ‘Teacher’: Paul’s Self-Images within an Oral MilieuAkio Ito19. Divine Voice, Literary Models, and Human Authority: Peter and Paul in the Early Christian ChurchJames Morrison20. Singing together in Church: Augustine’s Psalm against the DonatistsVincent Hunink