Orality and Performance in Classical Attic Prose: A Linguistic Approach (Oxford Classical Monographs)

This study discusses whether there is a linguistic difference between classical Attic prose texts intended for public oral delivery and those intended for written circulation and private performance, establishing a rigorous methodology for the reconstruction of the native perception of clarity in the original contexts of textual reception.

Alessandro Vatri is a Research Assistant in Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. He completed a D.Phil. in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford in 2013, having received his M.A. in Classics from Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on Ancient Greek linguistics, rhetoric, oratory, and cultural history, and he has published several articles in these fields as well as co-convened the international conferences, "The Language of Persuasion" (UCL, 2014) and "Language in Style" (Oxford, 2016), and the seminar series "Systems of Style" (Oxford and UCL, 2015). As well as his teaching and research in these areas, he is also actively interested in the development of tools and methods for the study of language through digital text corpora.