Phrasikleia - An Anthropology of Reading in Ancient Greece

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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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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• Authors: Jesper Svenbro
• Assisted by: Janet Lloyd (Translation), Janet E. Lloyd (Translation)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.1993
• EAN: 9780801497520
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-9752-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Myth and Poetics; Anthropology of Contemporary I; Myth and Poetics; Anthropology of Contemporary I
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity