Black doves speak : Herodotus and the languages of Barbarians / Rosaria Vignolo Munson

Author:: Munson, Rosaria Vignolo
Additional Titles:: Herodotus and the languages of Barbarians
Published:: Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, 2005.
Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press.
Physical Description:: ix, 121 pages ; 23 cm.

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Series:

Hellenic studies ; 9.

Contents:

Greek Speakers -- Greeks and Pelasgians -- Pelasgians and barbarians -- Greek language and languages -- Barbarians and strangers -- The Ethnographer and Foreign Languages -- Another histor: Psammetichus and the origin of language -- Languages and cultures -- Foreign languages and historie -- Herodotos Hermeneus -- Metalinguistic glosses -- Questioning Greek knowledge -- Names as logoi and muthoi -- Metaphorical names -- Correct names -- Nomen omen -- Giving the "right" word -- Orientalism and anti-orientalism -- Language and relativity -- The Meaning of Language Difference -- On misunderstanding language difference -- Language makes no difference -- Language difference as paradigm -- Transcending culture.

Summary:

"In Greek thought barbaroi are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance does the text of Herodotus's Histories attribute to language as a criterion of ethnic identity? The answer to this question illuminates the empirical foundations of Herodotus's pluralistic worldview." "The first translator of cultures also translates describes and evaluates foreign speech to a degree unparalleled by other Greek ancient authors. For Herodotus, language is an area of interesting but surprisingly unproblematic difference which he offers to his audience as a model for coming to terms in a neutral way with other, more emotionally charged, cultural differences."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

0674017900
9780674017900

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-99) and index.

Source of Acquisition:

UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Gift of the Tombros Libraries Endowment in Classics ; 2011.

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