Phrasikleia

Anthropology of Reading in Ancient Greece

By: Jesper Svenbro, Janet Lloyd (Translator)

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Hardcover | 13 May 1993

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First 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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Foreword
Translations Consulted
Introduction	p. 1
Phrasikleia: From Silence to Sound	p. 8
I Write, Therefore I Efface Myself: The Speech-Act in the Earliest Greek Inscriptions	p. 26
The Reader and the Reading Voice: The Instrumental Status of Reading Aloud	p. 44
The Child as Signifier: The "Inscription" of the Proper Name	p. 64
The Writer's Daughter: Kallirhoe and the Thirty Suitors	p. 80
Nomos, "Exegesis," Reading: The Reading Voice and the Law	p. 109
True Metempsychosis: Lycurgus, Numa, and the Tattooed Corpse of Epimenides	p. 123
Death by Writing: Sappho, the Poem, and the Reader	p. 145
The Inner Voice: On the Invention of Silent Reading	p. 160
The Reader and the eromenos: The Pederastic Paradigm of Writing	p. 187
Index	p. 217
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