Academic Program: ORALi-Tea 2008
The Third Annual ORALi-Tea was held on April 24th at Haverford College
We are delighted to report that the third annual Bi-College ORALi-Tea, an evening for the Oral Reading of Ancient Literature and (also oral) consumption of dessert, was as a success. Gest 101 was full to capacity, as students and faculty enjoyed over a dozen ancient works performed in their original languages. There was singing, tasty desserts, and of course great literature and performances.
Program
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Bryn Mawr Students Willy Lebowitz, Emily Olsen, Greg Potestio, George Reuter, Naomi Sharlin, Kiersten Spongberg, Sarah Stefanski Erika Carlson Mara Miller Cassie Gafford Ben Brock, Mark Cavanagh, Becca Morgan, Asher Reisman, Lara Pollack Emily Bergbower & Mary Florence Sullivan Emily Olsen & Sarah Stefanski Mark Cavanaugh Bret Mulligan Louisa Foroughi Deirdre Lloyd Deborah Roberts Omnes |
For more about the performance of ancient literature....
Digital Resources & Bibliography
Through the following links and bibliography, you can listen to a number of performance styles or learn more about how modern scholars have reconstructed the pronunciation and oral style of Greek and Latin.
General Links
S.A.L.V.I.: North American Institute For Living Latin Studies
SORGLL: Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature
Audio Links
Performing Cicero (UCLA): records a series of experiments in the performance of a Ciceronian speech. The goal was less to recreate an 'authentic' performance than to identify some parameters of Roman oratory by considering the demands on voice, gesture, dress, and bearing that delivery under ancient conditions imposed.
Recitations of Homer, Catullus, Virgil, Propertius, & Ovid: [Harvard]
Recitations of Homer, Pindar, Plato, Horace, Virgil, Propertius, Ovid, Seneca, & Tacitus: [Princeton]
Viva Voce: Recitations of Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Ovid, Juvenal, Martial, and Hadrian by Vojin Nedeljkovic
Iliad, Book 1 read by Stanley Lombardo
Aeneid, Book 4 read by Wilfred Stroh
Homer, Aeschylus, & Plato read by Stefan Hagel
Latin on the SORGLL website (Terence, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Vergil, Seneca, Martial)
Greek on the SORGLL website (Homer, Archilochus, Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Demosthenes)
Hear the News in Latin
Select Bibliography
Allen, W.S. Accent and Rhythm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
--------------. Vox Latina, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
--------------. Vox Graeca, 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Daitz, Stephen. “On Reading Homer Aloud: To Pause or Not to Pause.” AJP 1991: 149-60.
--------------. “Further Notes on the Pronunciation of Ancient Greek.” CW 2001-2002: 411-412.
Dillon, Matthew. “The Erasmian Pronunciation of Ancient Greek: A New Perspective.” CW 2000-2001: 323-334.
Fisher, M. M. The Three Pronunciations of Latin: The Claims of Each Presented, and Special Reasons Given for the Use of the English Mode. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885.
Greenberg, Nathan A. “Word Juncture in Latin Prose and Poetry.” TAPhA 1991: 297-333.
Shumaker, Wayne. “Final Vowel Plus –M: A Note on the Reading of Quantitative Latin Verse.” CP 1970: 185-7.
Stanford, W.B. The Sound of Greek. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
Sturtevant, E.H. The Pronunciation of Greek and Latin, 2nd ed. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Ward, Ralph L. “Evidence for the Pronunciation of Latin,” CW 1962: 161-4; 273-5.
Westaway, F. W. Quantity and Accent in the Pronunciation of Latin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913.