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Phrasikleia: An Anthropology of Reading in Ancient Greece (Myth and Poetics)
Phrasikleia An Anthropology of Reading in Ancient Greece - Myth and Poetics
Author: Jesper Svenbro
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 s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801425196
ISBN-10: 0801425190
Publication Date: 5/1993
Pages: 233
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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