Pt. 1. Poetry in performance
The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus / Adrian Kelly
The presentation of song in Homer's odyssey / Deborah Beck
Comparative perspectives on the composition of the Homeric simile / Jonathon Ready
Composing lines, performing acts: clauses, discourse acts, and melodic units in a south slavic epic song / Anna Bonifazi and David F. Elmer
Works and days as performance / Ruth Scodel
Pt. 2. Literacy and orality
Empowering the sacred: the function of the Sanskrit text in a contemporary exposition of the Bhagavatapurana/ McComas Taylor
Prompts for participation in early philosophical texts/ James Henderson Collins II
Performing an academic talk: Proclus on Hesiod's works and days / Patrizia Marzillo
The criticism-and the practice-of literacy in the ancient philosophical tradition / Mathilde Cambron-Goulet
Reading books, talking culture: the performance of Paideia in imperial greek literature / Jeroen Lauwers
Eumolpus poeta at work: rehearsed spontaneity in the Satyricon / Niall Slater.