HeroesX v08 Office Hours Extras 04 | Writing, Manuscripts, and Customary Law @KosmosSociety2024
HeroesX v08 Office Hours Extras 04 | Writing, Manuscripts, and Customary Law @KosmosSociety2024
Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Topics include the history of writing in ancient Greece, performance and written versions of Homeric epics, manuscripts, scholia; compensation and ransom, customary law, the beginnings of written law.
Recorded in Fall 2017 during v8 of MOOC The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, in response to participants’ questions.
With Leonard Muellner, Sarah Scott
Mentioned in this video:
Svenbro Jesper: Phrasikleia: An anthropology of reading in Ancient Greece. Translated from the French by Lloyd Janet. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.
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