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Phrasikleia: An Anthropology of Reading in Ancient Greece
ISBN: 9781501717680
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Books and reading -- Greece -- History; Language and culture -- Greece; Literacy -- Greece -- History; Greece -- Civilization;

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...