The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus' Histories - Brossura

Hollmann, Alexander

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ISBN 10: 0674055888 ISBN 13: 9780674055889

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Center for Hellenic, 2011

Riassunto

Readers of Herodotus' Histories are familiar with its reports of bizarre portents, riddling oracles, and striking dreams. But Herodotus draws our attention to other types of signs too, beginning with human speech itself as a coded system that can manipulate and be manipulated. Objects, gifts, artifacts, markings, even the human body, are all capable of being invested with meaning in the Histories and Herodotus shows that conventionally and culturally determined actions, gestures, and ritual all need decoding. This book represents an unprecedented examination of signs and their interpreters, as well as the terminology Herodotus uses to describe sign transmission, reception, and decoding. Through his control and involvement in this process he emerges as a veritable "master of signs".

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alexander Hollmann is Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Washington.

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Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus' Histories

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Harvard Univ Center for Hellenic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0674055888
• ISBN 13: 9780674055889
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288