Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. POETRY IN PERFORMANCE -- A. Kelly: The Audience Expects: Penelope and Odysseus -- D. Beck: The Presentation of Song in Homer's Odyssey -- J. Ready: Comparative Perspectives on the Composition of the Homeric Simile -- A. Bonifazi and D.F. Elmer: Composing Lines, Performing Acts: Clauses, Discourse Acts, and Melodic Units in a South Slavic Epic Song -- R. Scodel: Works and Days As Performance -- PART II. LITERACY AND ORALITY -- M. Taylor: Empowering the Sacred: The Function of the Sanskrit Text in a Contemporary Exposition of the Bhagavatapurana -- J. Henderson Collins II: Prompts for Participation in Early Philosophical Texts -- P. Marzillo: Performing an Academic Talk: Proclus on Hesiod's Works and Days -- M. Cambron-Goulet: The Criticism-and the Practice-of Literacy in the Ancient Philosophical Tradition -- J. Lauwers: Reading Books, Talking Culture: The Performance of Paideia in Imperial Greek Literature -- N.W. Slater: Eumolpus Poeta at Work: Rehearsed Spontaneity in the Satyricon -- Index.