«Voiceless writing?». Epigrammi, performance e poesia orale

Despite its foundational link to the written medium, the Greek epigram maintained a complex relationship with orality throughout its long history. This relationship between the genre and its oral dimension was explored at the conference Voiceless writing? Epigrams, performance and oral poetry (Bologna, 30-31 May 2024), which examined the epigram's interplay with other performance-oriented genres as well as rhetorical, material, and contextual elements hinting at an oral reception of these texts. The results, collected in this monographic section, open the way for future directions of research on the performative dimension of Greek epigram.