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  Phrasikleia: Anthropology of Reading in Ancient Greece (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) Jesper Svenbro

  

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  Short Description for Phrasikleia 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...
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  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Published: 13 May 1993
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Library & Information Sciences | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
  • ISBN 13: 9780801497520 ISBN 10: 0801497523
  • Sales rank: 612,447

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• 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 speaks for Phrasikleia, who "shall always be called maiden," for she has received this name from the gods instead of marriage.