Repetition, Communication, and Meaning in the Ancient World

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"This edited volume, arising from the 2019 conference "Orality and Literacy: Repetition," explores some of the many forms and uses of repetition, in poetry, philosophy, and inscriptions, from Homeric epic through the Latin novel and the Gospels to reception in the twentieth century. All human communication depends on repeating signs that are comprehensible to the speaker and the addressee. Yet "repetition" takes many specific forms, in different performance contexts, time periods, and literary genres. Repetition may operate within one utterance, or across several times, places, and artists. The relationship between two repeated utterances cannot always be determined with certainty. But repetition offers exciting ways to understand the communicative process in oral and literate contexts across the ancient world"-- ‎Contents ‎Preface ‎Notes on Contributors ‎Introduction (Beck) ‎Chapter 1. Repetition or Recurrence? A Traditional Use for ἄνδρεσσι μελήσει in Archaic Greek Poetry (Arft) ‎Chapter 2. Enumeration and Embodiment in Homeric Repetition (Forte) ‎Chapter 3. Odysseus’ Scar Once More: Repetition, Tradition, and Fiction in the Story of Odysseus’ Hunting in the Mountains of Parnassus (Létoublon) ‎Chapter 4. Repetition, Sortition, and Abbreviations in the Cypro-Minoan Script (Donnelly) ‎Chapter 5. Repeating the Unrepeated: Allusions to Homeric Hapax Legomena in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry (Nelson) ‎Chapter 6. Repetition and the Creation of “Sappho” (O’Connell) ‎Chapter 7. Repetition, Disanalogy, and Reflexivity in Hesiod’s Theogony: About the Fate of the Cyclopes, of the Hundred-Handers, and of the Children of Iapetus (Gheerbrant) ‎Chapter 8. Reperformance, Writing, and the Boundaries of Literature (Scodel) ‎Chapter 9. Other-Initiated Repetition and Fictive Orality in the Dialogues of Plato (Verano) ‎Chapter 10. Repetition, Improvisation, and Parody: Eumolpus Re-takes Troy in Petronius’s Satyrica 83–90 (Slater) ‎Chapter 11. Oral Prayer Patterns in Epigraphic Songs to Asklepios (Golab) ‎Chapter 12. Harmonization in the Pentateuch and Synoptic Gospels: Repetition and Category-Triggering within Scribal Memory (Person) ‎Chapter 13. “Godlike” Grappling: Professional Wrestling as a Model for the Shifting of Epithet Significance in Oral Poetry (Duffy) ‎Chapter 14. The Creation of a Storyrealm: The Role of Repetition in Homeric Epic and Alice Oswald’s Memorial (Minchin) ‎Index Locorum ‎Index of Subjects