The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus' Histories (Hellenic Studies Series, Band 48) - Softcover

Hollmann, Alexander

 
9780674055889: The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus' Histories (Hellenic Studies Series, Band 48)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0674055888 ISBN 13: 9780674055889
Verlag: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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".

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

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Verlag
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674055888
ISBN 13 
9780674055889
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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