Ancient Literacies
A single and simple pair of contrasting images will make the point most vividly. When the embassy comes upon Achilles before his ...
action, Libanius writes himself as a hero in his own story of the intellec- tual tradition of Greek rhetoric. Now, as my mention ...
referring to the evident necessity for orators and sophists to write the spoken and to speak the written. Nor am I going to focu ...
interests in ‘‘pure Attic,’’ or Galen’s comments on good Greek, or Lucian’s angst- and humor-filled satires on obsessive interes ...
between Christianity and ancient philosophy.^15 Thechreiais usually a single sentence or brief exchange culminating in a witty o ...
The anecdote differs from thechreia, however, in that it is not com- mitted in the same way to the single witticism, nor is it q ...
the listener. Having a few good paradoxes up your sleeve can save your love life. Indeed, when the hero of the novel is trying f ...
simple case will show how they can overlap. The sophist Favorinus, since Maud Gleason’s Making Men, has become a familiar figure ...
chria).^23 Interestingly, he concludes by pointing out that Latin rhetoricians do not match up to their Greek counterparts: ‘‘Ce ...
the title of sophist, and one or two he doesn’t. Many of these entries are very brief and are little more than markers of identi ...
‘‘What about your speech?’’ asked Herodes. ‘‘How were you educated, and by whom? For you do not seem to me to be one of the uned ...
sophisticated: even a Plutarch, it is suggested, accustomed to shout ‘‘No! Error!,’’ is like a rube before this paragon of unedu ...
Greekness. The uncertain degree to which such an observation depends on contemporary cultural understandings or illuminates mode ...
prevent the dissolution of the drinkers through drink and bring the right social qualities of relaxed friendship—‘‘if people eng ...
increasing need to use such fragments to bolster against ruin. A dictionary of cultural literacy. It is a pattern that Classics ...
Greek culture in which the anecdote seems to come into its own as a form, at least to judge from the literary evidence, our only ...
, eds. 2002.TheChreia and Ancient Rhetoric. Vol. 2:Classroom Exercises. Atlanta. Jones, C. 1971.Plutarch and Rome. Oxford. Kaste ...
6 Situating Literacy at Rome Thomas Habinek In 1997 Emmanuelle Valette-Cagnac published her Paris dissertation on the anthropolo ...
vocalizing in the transmittal of turns of phrase, metrical patterns, sound effects, and the like. More generally, Wachter’s pape ...
WRITING, PROPERTY, AND THE MATERIALIZATION OF SOCIAL RELATIONS If we consider the spread of writing and reading practices at R ...
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