Phrasikleia: An Anthropology of Reading in Ancient GreeceForeword / Gregory Nagy -- 1. Phrasikleia: From Silence to Sound -- 2. I Write, Therefore I Efface Myself: The Speech-Act in the Earliest Greek Inscriptions -- 3. The Reader and the Reading Voice: The Instrumental Status of Reading Aloud -- 4. The Child as Signifier: The "Inscription" of the Proper Name -- 5. The Writer's Daughter: Kallirhoe and the Thirty Suitors -- 6. Nomos, "Exegesis," Reading: The Reading Voice and the Law -- 7. True Metempsychosis: Lycurgus, Numa, and the Tattooed Corpse of Epimenides -- 8. Death by Writing: Sappho, the Poem, and the Reader -- 9. The Inner Voice: On the Invention of Silent Reading -- 10. The Reader and the eromenos: The Pederastic Paradigm of Writing. |
Contents
From Silence to Sound | 8 |
The SpeechAct in | 26 |
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 |
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