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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
From Silence to Sound | 8 |
The SpeechAct in the Earliest Greek Inscriptions | 26 |
The Instrumental Status of Reading Aloud | 44 |
The Inscription of the Proper Name | 64 |
Kallirhoe and the Thirty Suitors | 80 |
The Reading Voice and the Law | 109 |
Lycurgus Numa and the Tattooed Corpse of Epimenides | 123 |
Sappho the Poem and the Reader | 145 |
On the Invention of Silent Reading | 160 |
The Pederastic Paradigm of Writing | 187 |
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