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

Hollmann, Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674055888 ISBN 13 : 9780674055889

Editeur : Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2011

Synopsis

Readers of Herodotus's 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."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alexander Hollmann is Assistant Professor of the Classics at the University of Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674055888
• ISBN 13: 9780674055889
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 298
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