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

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

Hollmann, Alexander

Paperback

Series: Hellenic Studies, Book 48

Literary CriticismAncient Greece

ISBN10: 0674055888
ISBN13: 9780674055889
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 2011
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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