Reciter synonyms

He was also distinguished as a reciter, and on a visit to the United States in 1871 read extracts from his works before large audiences.

We can only suppose that the lyre in the hands of the epic poet or reciter was in reality a piece of convention, a " survival " from the stage in which narrative poetry had a lyrical character.

It was not until two centuries later that the historikos, the reciter of stories, superseded the historeon (to-Top&w), the seeker after knowledge.