附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-307) and index.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Introduction; Chapter One: Religious Silence without an Ineffable God; Chapter Two: A Silent Body in a Sonorous World: Silence and Heroic Values in the Iliad; Chapter Three: The Poet's Voice against Silence; Chapter Four: "I Will Be Silent": Figures of Silence and Representations of Speaking in Athenian Oratory; Chapter Five: Words Staging Silence; Chapter Six: Silence and Tragic Destiny; Chapter Seven: Silence, a Herald of Death; Chapter Eight: Silence, Ruse, and Endurance: Odysseus and Beyond.
摘要:In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence fit into the mental framework of a society that valued speech so highly? Here Silvia Montiglio provides the first comprehensive investigation into silence as a distinctive and meaningful phenomenon in archaic and classical Greece. Arguing that the notion of silence is not a universal given but is rather situated in a complex network of associations and values, Montiglio seeks to establish general pr.
