PREFACE -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- Part I EPIC, ORALITY AND POLITICS -- THE LANGUAGE OF HEROES AND THE LANGUAGE OF HEROINES: STORYTELLING IN ORAL TRADITIONAL EPIC --- Elizabeth Minchin -- "SUMMONING TOGETHER ALL THE PEOPLE": VARIANT TELLINGS OF THE MWINDO EPIC AS SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DELIBERATION --- Nathalia King -- ORALITY AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM: THE HOMERIC HYMNS --- Franco Ferrari -- ORALITY AND THE POLITICS OF SCHOLARSHIP --- Annette Teffeteller -- Part II POLITICAL MANIPULATION OF TEXTS -- WRITTEN LISTS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL IN CLASSICAL ATHENS --- Geoffrey W. Bakewell -- WHY THE ATHENIANS FORGOT CLEISTHENES: LITERACY AND THE POLITICS OF REMEMBRANCE IN ANCIENT ATHENS --- Greg Anderson -- LYCURGUS AND THE STATE TEXT OF TRAGEDY --- Ruth Scodel -- MYTH AND WRITING IN AESCHINES' AGAINST TIMARCHUS --- Guy Olding -- ORALITY AND THE POLITICS OF ROMAN PEACEMAKING --- L.T. Zollschan -- Part III THE ORAL AND WRITTEN CONTROVERSY: PRIVILEGING LITERACY -- THEOGNIS' SPHRÊGIS: ARISTOCRATIC SPEECH AND THE PARADOXES OF WRITING --- Thomas Hubbard -- THUCYDIDES' HISTORY LIVE: RECEPTION AND POLITICS --- James V. Morrison -- FROM ORALITY TO LITERACY: THE MORAL EDUCATION OF THE ELITE IN FOURTH-CENTURY ATHENS --- Frances Pownall -- WRITING DIVINE SPEECH: GREEK TRANSLITERATIONS OF NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES IN THE HELLENISTIC EAST --- Matthew J. Martin -- Part IV THE ORAL AND WRITTEN CONTROVERSY: PRIVILEGING ORALITY -- FIGHTING THE FUTURE: EURIPIDEAN LETTERS AND THUCYDIDES' ATHENS --- E.M. Griffiths -- ELITIST ORALITY AND THE TRIVIALITY OF WRITING --- Margalit Finkelberg -- NERONIAN ORAL POLITICS: THE CASE OF MUSONIUS RUFUS --- Niall W. Slater -- Part V ORALITY AND WRITTEN LAW -- ORAL "AGREEMENT", WRITTEN CONTRACT, AND THE BONDS OF LAW AT ATHENS --- Edwin Carawan.

DID THE ATHENIAN COURTS ATTEMPT TO ACHIEVE CONSISTENCY? ORAL TRADITION AND WRITTEN RECORDS IN THE ATHENIAN ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE --- Edward M. Harris -- SELECT INDEX.