The So-Called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases

Between Paideia and Paidiá
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37118-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 546 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1007 g

Reihe: Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy

As the first extensive survey of the ancient Greek painters’ practice of writing nonsense on vases, The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases by Sara Chiarini provides a systematic overview of the linguistic features of the phenomenon and discusses its forms and contexts of reception.
While the origins of the practice lie in the impaired literacy of the painters involved in it, the extent of the phenomenon suggests that, at some point, it became a true fashion within Attic vase painting. This raises the question of the forms of interaction with this epigraphic material. An open approach is adopted: “reading” attempts, riddles and puns inspired by nonsense inscriptions could happen in a variety of circumstances, including the symposium but not limited to it.

This book is the winner of the 2018 Géza Alföldy Publication Prize awarded by the AIEGL (Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chiarini, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Sara Chiarini, Ph.D. (2011), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan), is currently lecturer at the Otto-von-Guericke Universität in Magdeburg (Germany). She works chiefly on the linguistic and socio-cultural features of ancient epigraphic sources.