E-Book, Englisch, Band 1761, 294 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Steiner The Tyrant's Writ
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7285-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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Myths and Images of Writing in Ancient Greece
E-Book, Englisch, Band 1761, 294 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7285-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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Author's Note
Introduction 3
1 Tokens and Texts 10
Two models of communication 11
Phrazein and anagignoskein 16
Inscribed semata 29
The Hymn to Hermes and the Seven Against Thebes 40
2 Rites of Inscription 61
Oath taking, treaties, and the law 64
Cursing 71
Vows and prayers 75
Oracles 80
Enshrining the text: publication and circulation 86
Pindaric agalmata 91
3 Impressions and Assemblages 100
Writing and physiology 100
Writing and cosmology 116
Writing and regulation 122
4 The Tyranny of Writing 127
Two archetypes: Sesostris and Deioces 128
The inscribed marker: commemorative pillars, boundary stones, graves 132
The catalogue and inventory 142
The dispatch 149
Inscribing the body 154
Coins, seals, and trade 159
Writing in Greece 166
The Scythians and Spartans 174
5 The City of Words 186
Speech and the agora 187
The writer in the countryside 193
The writer oligarch in the city center 216
Nomoi gegrammenoi 227
Epilogue 242
Bibliography 253
Index of Principal Passages Cited 265
General Index 275
