4016 Fall07 Supplemental Readings 4

From Studyplace

Bernal, Martin, Black Athena. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1987

Beye, Charles, Ancient Greek Literature and Society. New York: Anchor Books, 1975.

Dodds, E.R., The Greeks and the Irrational. California, University of California Press, 1984.

Drucker, Johanna, The Alphabetic Labyrinth. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995.

Finnegan, Ruth, Literacy & Orality: Studies in the Technology of Communication. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988.

Harris, Roy, The Origin of Writing. Chicago: Open Court, 1986.

Havelock, Eric A., Preface to Plato. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1967.

Innis, Harold, The Bias of Communication. Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1951.

Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.

Lord, Albert B., The Singer of Tales. New York: Atheneum, 1965.

Lord, Albert B., Songs Online, Harvard: http://www.chs.harvard.edu/mpc/songs/abl_songs.html

Lord, Albert B., Songs Online, Harvard, The Role of Tradition in Oral Epic Story: http://www.chs.harvard.edu/mpc/about/due.html

Lynd, Helen M., On Shame and Search for Identity. New York: Science Editions, Inc., 1961.

McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man. Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1997.

Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. (Originally published 1865)

Ong, Walter J., The Presence of the World: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1967.

Ong, Walter J., Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1977.

Ong, Walter, J., The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1967.

Ong, Walter J., Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London & New York: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1982.

Parry, Adam, The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Redfield, James M., Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.

nell, Bruno, The Discovery of the Mind: the Greek Origins of European Thought. Cambridge. Mass. 1973

Steiner, George and Robert Fagles, Homer. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1962.

Weston, Labarre, Ghostdance

Whitman, Cedric, Homer and the Heroic Tradition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1958.

Wolf, F.A., Prolegomena to Homer. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985

Yunis, Harvey, Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece. Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Suggested Links:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ -- The Perseus site will provide you with a range of basic information about antiquity. Use it for dates, facts, biographies and almost anything else related to classical antiquity.

http://www.studyplace.org -- Study Place is the site Robert McClintock and I use for our courses and students. Student papers from advance courses are posted there.

http://www.edge.org -- Interesting archives of debates in contemporary science and philosophy.