Phrasikleia: An Anthropology of Reading in Ancient GreeceFirst published in French in 1988, this extraordinary book traces the meaning and function of reading from its very beginnings in Greek oral culture through the development of silent reading. One of the most haunting early examples of Greek alphabetical writing appears on the life-sized Archaic funerary statue of a young girl. The inscription speaks for Phrasikleia, who "shall always be called maiden," for she has received this name from the gods instead of marriage. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
From Silence to Sound | 8 |
The Instrumental | 44 |
The Inscription of the | 64 |
Kallirhoe and the Thirty | 80 |
The Reading Voice and | 109 |
Lycurgus Numa and the | 123 |
Sappho the Poem and the Reader | 145 |
On the Invention of Silent Reading | 160 |
The Pederastic | 187 |
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Aeschylus Aktaion alphabet ancient Greece Apollo archaic Aristotle Athenaeus Athenian Athens basileus Centuries B.C. Chantraine Chapter cited conf1rmed daughter def1ne Detienne Diels-Kranz egocentric epigram epikleros Epimenides epithet erastes eromenos Euripides f1gure f1nd f1re f1rst person fact father Fifth Centuries frag funerary grdmmata grecque Greek Herodotus Hesiod hode Homer Ibid Iliad inscribed inscription interpretation Kadmos Kallirhoe king Kleisas kleos Kyzikos lawgiver Lazzarini letters Lobel-Page logos Lycurgus Lysias meaning memory metaphor mnema Mnesitheos Myth Nagy name-giving nemein nomoi nomos object Odyssey oral Paris Pausanias pederastic Pfohl Phaedrus phdrmakon Phokos Phrasikleia phrdzein Pindar Plato Plato Phaedrus Plutarch poem poet Prokleidas pronounced psukhe reader reading aloud refer relationship saffron Sappho Scholia seems sema sense signif1ant silent reading Socrates sonorous Sophocles sound Sparta speak speech speech-act statue stele stone suitors Sulzberger Svenbro tell third person tion tode tradition trans translation verb Vernant vocal voice writing written word
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| Title | Phrasikleia: An Anthropology of Reading in Ancient Greece Anthropology of Contemporary Issues Cornell paperbacks Myth and poetics |
| Author | Jesper Svenbro |
| Translated by | Janet Lloyd |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0801497523, 9780801497520 |
| Length | 233 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General |
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